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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 He has been replaced
by Dindigul Sreenivasan as the party Treasurer.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.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017,
Chennai
The AIADMK is expected to expel outgoing chief minister O Panneerselvam from the party within a few hours to quell the possibility
of any revolt against the leadership and in a bid to isolate him in the party.
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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.
