AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) readmitted them just two days before the deadline for condonation in the disqualification proceedings before the Speaker.
The AIADMK’s internal tensions sharpened after rival groups intensified efforts to control district units, with Dindigul emerging as the latest centre of confrontation.
AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami alleged that Vijay formed the TVK government by luring some members with promises of ministerial berths and board appointments.
AIADMK leader C V Shanmugam, who is part of the rebel group, asserted that the mandate is for Vijay's TVK, and, therefore, extended his support to the actor-politician's government on behalf of the AIADMK Legislative Party.
The crisis unfolded during the Assembly proceedings on Monday after both Palaniswami and Velumani separately approached Pro-tem Speaker Karuppiah, each claiming to command the support of the majority of AIADMK MLAs and asserting their right to lead the party in the Assembly.
A resolution was passed at the General Council meeting, attended by over 4,000 functionaries at Vanagaram on the outskirts of Chennai, which also formally endorsed the AIADMK’s return to the NDA in order to defeat the “common enemy”—the ruling DMK, which it alleged was steeped in “scientific corruption” beginning from Chief Minister Stalin’s family onward.
Continuing his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remark that the ‘DMK is harassing Biharis’, made at an election rally in poll-bound Bihar, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday dared him to repeat the same in Tamil Nadu, which welcomes migrant workers and entrepreneurs, ensuring they live in peace and happiness.
AIADMK General Secretary and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS) will be meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The court was dealing with a batch of pleas relating to the tussle between former Chief Ministers O Panneerselvam (OPS) and EPS over AIADMK leadership.
The AIADMK leader, according to EPS, was attacked during the election to the post of vice president for the district panchayat.
