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Wednesday, April 19, 2017,
Chennai
Ousted deputy general secretary T T V Dhinakaran has decided to take the fight to the ruling AIADMK(Amma) and has convened a
meeting of party MLAs and district secretaries at party headquarters on April 19 afternoon.
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Monday, April 17, 2017,
New Delhi
AIADMK (Amma) Deputy General Secretary TTV Dhinakaran has been booked by Crime Branch of Delhi Police following the arrest of a middleman from a five-star hotel in Delhi on Sunday, April 16, 2017. The FIR was filed for allegedly bribing the middleman to get the Election Commission to allot the Two Leaves symbol allotted to his faction.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017,
Chennai
The Election Commission on March 22 froze the Two Leaves symbol of the AIADMK party. The two AIADMK groups led by V K Sasikala and O Panneerselvam respectively will now have to contest on different symbols in the April 12 RK Nagar by-election.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017,
Chennai
The ruling AIADMK has announced the candidature of Sasikala nephew and party deputy general secretary TTV Dhinakaran for the Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency by-election to the Tamil Nadu Assembly, while the DMK has fielded N Marudhu Ganesh. The bypoll has been caused by the death of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017,
Chennai
AIADMK minister K Pandiarajan, second-rung leaders like former ministers Natham Viswanathan, C Ponnaiyan, P H pandian and
other office-bearers who supported O Panneerselvam have been expelled from the party.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017,
Chennai
Tamil Nadu minister for Public Works, Minor Ports and Highways Edappadi Palanisamy was on February 14 unanimously elected as
Leader of the AIADMK Legislature Party shortly after V K Sasikala stepped down from the post in the wake of the Supreme Court
order convicting Jayalalithaa, Sasikala and two others in the Disproportionate Assets case.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017,
Chennai
A crucial fact that the AIADMK party and the media have missed is that the Disproportionate Assets case is mainly about former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, and whether she is guilty or not. The Supreme Court judges have to find Jayalalithaa guilty in this case and convict her, and only then can they go on to Sasikala, Ilavarasi and V N Sudhagaran, the other three accused in the case.
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Monday, February 13, 2017,
New Delhi
The crucial Disproportionate Assets case judgement will be delivered on Feb 14, 2017, which could have a big impact on the political scenario in Tamil Nadu as V K Sasikala, AIADMK general secretary and CM-elect, is an accused in the case.
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Saturday, February 11, 2017,
Chennai
The ruling AIADMK is heading for a vertical split and loss of government, as a spell of President's rule looks likely, ending in fresh elections to the Assembly. The only way out for the AIADMK is to elect a new legislature party leader, other than Sasikala, from its MLAs and have this leader installed immediately as CM. The governor restriction is only for Sasikala but not to another leader of its MLAs.
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Saturday, February 11, 2017,
Chennai
Acting Governor C Vidyasagar Rao, apparently toeing the BJP line, has indicated that he will await the verdict of the Supreme Court
in the Disproportionate Case involving AIADMK general sectary and CM-elect V K Sasikala, before deciding on installing her as
CM.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017,
Chennai
A supremely confident Sasikala, speaking to mediapersons at her Poes Garden residence after a late-night meeting to counter O
Panneerselvam's salvo, said the AIADMK was fully intact and was together like a family, and pooh-poohed Panneerselvam's charges
against the party leadership. She also said he would be removed from primary membership of the party shortly.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017,
Chennai
The BJP, which has been working on a plan to split the AIADMK ever since the death of Jayalalithaa is using O Panneerselvam to do a Manjhi in Tamil Nadu. This is an almost replica of the Bihar operation in which Jitan Ram Manjhi, who was entrusted the chief ministership by JDU leader Nitish Kumar and was later asked to resign in favour of Nitish, refused to step down, and claimed he had majority support in the Assembly with the help of the BJP, a pliant Governor who toed the Centre line, and PM.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017,
Chennai
The AIADMK quickly hit back at revolting O Panneerselvam by sacking him from the post of party Treasurer. He has been replaced
by Dindigul Sreenivasan as the party Treasurer. Dindigul Sreenivasan is Forest minister in the Tamil Nadu cabinet.
