On Monday, Edappady K Palaniswami elected as an interim General Secretary of Tamilnadu’s principal opposition party and the party allotted him full powers to rule the organisation. The AIADMK expelled opposition leader O Paneerselvam from the party’s primary membership and his post of treasurer but the defiant leader said his rival Edappady K Palaniswami has no right to show him the door and rather announced the expulsion of the latter from the party.
Paneerselvam said he was elected as coordinator by 1.5 crore party workers and that neither Palaniswami nor another leader, K P Munusamy had the right to expel him. Criticizing the two for expelling him unilaterally, Paneerselvam said, “I expel them from primary membership of the AIADMK.”
Senior leader and former minister C Vijayabhaskar presented accounts connected to party finances in the meet, while Paneerselvam is the party treasurer. It represents that OPS would soon be eased out his position.
The former minister of Tamilnadu, Jayalalitha headed the party for decades as its powerful general secretary while her close aide, VK Sasikala was made interim general secretary for a brief period following the former’s death in December 2016.