Tag: Edappadi Palaniswami

Amid tussle for control of affairs between OPS and EPS, AIADMK to elect general secretary on March 26

It is expected that the AIADMK's interim general secretary, Palaniswami, will be elected the general secretary unopposed.

March 18, 2023

“DMK planning to destroy AIADMK ‘B-team’…”: AIADMK Interim General Secretary Edappadi Palaniswami

AIADMK Interim General Secretary Edappadi Palaniswami on Saturday took a jibe at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and said that the DMK's plans to destroy AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam's faction would yield no results.

March 12, 2023

TN: Bypoll for prized Erode Assembly seat underway, tight race between Cong, AIADMK could decide outcome

A total of 77 candidates across political affiliations are vying for the prized Assembly constituency.

February 27, 2023

Both AIADMK camps invited to meet poll authorities

EPS claims that he alone represents the AIADMK and that OPS had been removed from post of party co-ordinator and primary membership of the party, the State election department continues to go by the earlier election in the AIADMK, wherein OPS was elected as co-ordinator and EPS as joint co-ordinator.

December 30, 2022

Report on Thoothukudi police firing exposes former TN CM Palaniswami

13 people were killed in the police firing at anti-Sterlite protestors on May 22, 2018 at Thoothukudi. Contrary to then CM Edappadi Palaniswami's claim that he was not aware of the police firing he was given minute-to-minute updates on the protests and the incidents, according to the statements of officials.

October 19, 2022

Clueless in TN

When the Union government ordered unlocking from 1 June, Palaniswami introduced a novel system of simultaneous lockdown and unlocking and fell between two stools.

July 14, 2020

A heartless order

Most beneficiaries of private charity are without ration cards, bank accounts or even a fixed home address and fall outside the purview of government agencies. The reason given by the government for this ban order is that non-government agencies are not maintaining “social distancing” properly.

April 20, 2020

Cinema for the Cans

The Tamil Nadu chief minister, Edappadi Palaniswami, has a lot to answer for not merely in terms of the in-house turmoil within the AIADMK, but in the sphere of the arts and culture no less. In the season of international film festivals ~ Mumbai in October followed by Kolkata and Goa in November ~ cinema...

November 13, 2018

Two Leaves’ twirl

The ‘Two Leaves’ election symbol of the AIADMK founded by MG Ramachandran and inherited by J Jayalalitha has been allotted to an entity called ‘AIADMK (APTA)’ formed by the ‘shotgun’ merger of two AIADMK factions, one led by O Panneerselvam called the AIADMK (Puratchi Thalaivi Amma) and the other called AIADMK (Amma) led by Edappadi...

November 26, 2017

TN CM meets PM, seeks Central help for various schemes

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Centre should reconsider its decision to introduce NEET examination in Tamil Nadu and exempt the state from it in the interest of students. Talking to newspersons after his meeting with Modi, he said exemption should be given from NEET to...

May 24, 2017

DMK challenges Tamil Nadu trust vote in Madras HC

Seeking to declare Saturday's vote of confidence in the Tamil Nadu Assembly null and void, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Monday moved the Madras High Court and sought urgent hearing of the matter. "The vote of confidence was not done in a manner it should be done," the DMK alleged according to reports.   “The bench,...

February 20, 2017