Senior DMK leader and former party convenor M.A.S. Subramanian has joined the Bharatiya Janatha Party along with his loyalists on Saturday.

Mr. Subramanian and his supporters met BJP president Amit Shah at the national executive of the party in Bengaluru and expressed their wish to join the party.

Mr. Subramanian was appointed as the convenor of the Puducherry unit of the DMK in 2012 replacing former Chief Minister R.V. Janakiraman.

The DMK had recently bifurcated the Puducherry unit and appointed former Minister S.P. Sivakumar as organiser of north unit and former MLA R. Siva as organiser of south unit.

Mr. Subramanian was the MLA of Mudaliarpet constituency from 2001 to 2006 and 2006 to 2011.