With AIADMK’s interest in mind, EPS dragging on seat sharing, unyielding to BJP’s demands
Though the AIADMK had re-entered the NDA in April last, seat sharing has not been finalised even with the BJP while other allies are still awaiting their turn.
Though the AIADMK had re-entered the NDA in April last, seat sharing has not been finalised even with the BJP while other allies are still awaiting their turn.
The sudden shortage of commercial LPG cylinders has forced hotels and eateries to scale down their regular operations in Chennai and across the state, raising an alarm
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS), flanked by Anbumani, announced before the media that the PMK had formally joined the alliance under his leadership and that seat-sharing with the PMK had been finalised.
With Delhi turning out to be the epicentre of the internal feud in the AIADMK, former Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi Palaniswami will meet the BJP’s chief strategist and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday to sort out the issues in the wake of the rebellion led by AIADMK veteran K A Sengottaiyan.
It is expected that the AIADMK's interim general secretary, Palaniswami, will be elected the general secretary unopposed.
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.
A total of 77 candidates across political affiliations are vying for the prized Assembly constituency.
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.
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.
When the Union government ordered unlocking from 1 June, Palaniswami introduced a novel system of simultaneous lockdown and unlocking and fell between two stools.
