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Friday, September 11, 2020,
Chennai
Nephew of late MG Ramachandran, M C Chandran, son of MG Chakrapani, MGR's elder brother, succumbed to Corona-virus attack on September 11, 2020. The death came at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General hospital in Chennai where he was undergoing treatment for the last few days. He was 75.
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Friday, April 17, 2020,
Chennai
The AIADMK high command will decide on the issue of joining the next NDA government at the Centre as and when it is formed, AIADMK minister for Fisheries, and unofficial spokesman of Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, K Jayakumar said in an exclusive interview.
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Thursday, April 20, 2017,
Chennai
The AIADMK (Puratchithalai Amma) party led by former chief minister O Panneerselvam has demanded that the AIADMK (Amma) release resignation letters from V K Sasikala, and her nephew T T V Dhinakaran, and the party's official confirmation that all relatives of Sasikala had been removed from party membership.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017,
Chennai
AIADMK (Puratchithalaivi Amma) leader O Panneerselvam has described the decision of the ruling AIADMK (Amma) group to remove the Sasikala family from the party as a “first victory” for his Dharmayudham. The two AIADMK groups would hold talks regarding unity, he added.
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Monday, April 17, 2017,
Chennai
At least 25 Tamil Nadu ministers held discussions at the residence of Electricity minister Thangamani on April 17 night regarding unity
among rival AIADMK groups, particularly with the group led by former chief minister O Panneerselvam.
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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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Sunday, March 12, 2017,
Chennai
AIADMK Coimbatore North MLA Arun Kumar, who quit the Sasikala group of the AIADMK, ahead of the confidence vote in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, formally joined the AIADMK group led by former CM O Panneerselvam on March 12.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017,
Chennai
The Madras High Court on February 22 declined to grant any interim relief to the DMK, with respect to its petition questioning the manner in which the vote of confidence was won by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami in the Assembly, asked Leader of the Opposition and DMK party working president M.K. Stalin to produce video recordings to prove his charge that he was assaulted.
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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,
Chennai
Not willing to take things lying down, AIADMK general secretary Sasikala has asked TN Governor to provide her an immediate appointment today, for her to meet him along with the party MLAs regarding the party decision electing her as the CM candidate
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Saturday, February 11, 2017,
Chennai
Not willing to take things lying down, AIADMK general secretary has asked Tamil Nadu Acting Governor to provide her an immediate appointment today, for her to meet him along with the party MLAs regarding the need to take action on the Legislature Party decision asking her to take over as CM of Tamil Nadu.
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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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Friday, February 10, 2017,
Chennai
A well-crafted BJP strategy to lure AIADMK MLAs into their den through interim chief minister O Panneerselvam has run into trouble, as it did not expect strong resilience from majority of the AIADMK MLAs who have remained with Sasikala despite threats, temptation and instigation.
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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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Tuesday, February 7, 2017,
Chennai
Outgoing chief minister of Tamil Nadu, O Panneerselvam, on February 7 night, revolted against AIADMK general secretary and
CM-elect V K Sasikala, and said he would fight, even as a loner, for AIADMK to have good leadership. He said he would withdraw
his resignation if the people and the party wanted him to do so.
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Friday, January 20, 2017,
Chennai
AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala on January 20 reviewed the situation relating to Jallikattu with party leaders, and instructed
CM O Panneerselvam and senior party leaders to make arrangements for holding the Jallikattu at the earliest in accordance with the
wishes of the people. The stage is set for an early Jallikattu event at Vaadivaasal.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017,
New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ruled out issuing an ordinance to enable holding of Jallikattu. When Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam raised the issue of the Jallikattu ban, and urged the Centre to issue an ordinance to allow the bull-fight, the Prime Minister is understood to have told the CM that the matter was sub judice and therefore there was no way the Centre could issue an ordinance at this juncture.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017,
New Delhi
Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam, after a morning meeting with PM Modi, said the State and the Central governments would soon take steps to ensure that Jallikattu was conducted.
