Chennai : The crisis inside the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) deepened on Wednesday after party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami removed rebel leaders. A total of 29 AIADMK leaders, including 13 sitting MLAs, have been removed from various party posts, including district secretary positions.
Apart from Shanmugam and Velumani, several senior AIADMK leaders, including R Kamaraj, C Vijayabhaskar, Thangamani, KP Anbazhagan, KC Veeramani, and MR Vijayabhaskar, have also been relieved of their posts. The action came hours after 25 AIADMK MLAs voted in favour of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government during the trust vote, helping Vijay comfortably prove his majority on the Assembly floor.
Meanwhile, high drama unfolded inside the Tamil Nadu Assembly during Chief Minister Vijay’s floor test after Palaniswami made a major claim that AIADMK MLAs were allegedly offered cash and ministerial berths to vote in favour of the TVK chief. While Palaniswami declared that all 47 AIADMK MLAs would oppose the motion supporting Vijay, Velumani from the rebel faction openly pledged support for him.
Exuding complete defiance to the party line decided by Palaniswami, Velumani openly vowed support to Vijay. “Respecting the wish of the people, the AIADMK supports the Confidence Motion brought by CM”, he said. Soon after the trust vote, senior AIADMK leader C Ve Shanmugam publicly rebelled against Palaniswami, popularly known as EPS, accusing him of abandoning the party’s core anti-DMK ideology.
Rejecting allegations of betrayal, the rebel leader claimed it was EPS who had moved away from the AIADMK’s foundational politics. “I have not betrayed. Our party’s basic principle is to wipe out the DMK. For the past 50 years, we have been fighting against the DMK,” he said.
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