Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India]October 19 (ANI): All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam interim general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s “idea of disbanding the AIADMK” will not work.
The EPS also accused Assembly Speaker M Appavu of favoritism.
“We had requested Speaker M Appavu through a letter three months ago to consider our new Deputy Leader of Assembly RB Udayakumar and allot him a seat accordingly in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, but he did not consider it. Injustice has been done with the distribution of seats in the assembly. He is not behaving as a speaker and is behaving in a partisan manner,” Palaniswami said.
He further said that he met CM Stalin and O Panneerselvam and discussed for more than half an hour on Tuesday.
“Stalin’s idea of dismantling and destroying the AIADMK will not work,” he said.
“The support of MLAs is important and allotment of seats should be done according to their numbers. However, the speaker says that there is no law in the assembly to allot the deputy leader’s seat, which is wrong as there is a law for it.
Addressing media persons after several cadres of AIADMK cadres, including D Jayakumar, were detained by Tamil Nadu Police while protesting against the state government, he said law and order was badly affected in the DMK government.
“This is a democracy, peaceful movement should be allowed,” Jayakumar said.
Despite we saying that O Panneerselvam, Manoj Pandian and Vaithayalingam have been sacked from the party, Assembly Speaker Apavu is still supporting the OPS.
Former Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami (EPS) on Tuesday said that over 60 AIADMK MLAs have made representations to the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker against the OPS.
The fight between AIADMK factions led by former chief ministers EPS and OPS has reached the Tamil Nadu Assembly, with both sides urging Assembly Speaker M Appavu to identify them as the real AIADMK.
“More than 60 MLAs of AIADMK do not want OPS to become deputy leader of opposition. We had made a representation to the Speaker on this. It has been two months since we asked the Speaker to remove OPS from the post,” EPS said at a press conference on Tuesday. But however, no changes have been made and the Ops is still the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
The EPS was addressing the press after Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M Appavu ordered the ouster of himself and the AIADMK MLAs amid uproar in the Assembly.
He further said that he was not given a chance to speak about this in the assembly. “OPS is the one who has been removed from the primary membership of AIADMK. The Speaker seems to be acting on DMK’s suggestions.
Earlier on October 17, when the monsoon session of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly began, the EPS remained absent.
Sources said they “boycotted” the assembly session as the leader of the rival faction OPS was made to sit in the deputy leader’s chair, sources said.
The former Chief Minister OPS was seen attending the proceedings of the House sitting on the chair for the deputy floor leader of the AIADMK.
At the General Council meeting called back on 11 July, EPS was elected as the party’s interim general secretary. Before the meeting, supporters of both the opposing factions clashed outside the party headquarters.
After a violent clash, the Revenue Divisional Officer took over the headquarters.
The August 17 judgment of a single bench of Justice G Jayachandran had set aside the July 11 meeting and ordered status quo before July 11. The EPS camp then challenged the single bench’s decision to a division bench of the Madras High Court, which ruled in its favour. eps.
Both factions of AIADMK have urged Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M Appavu to recognize him as the real AIADMK. The matter is pending in the Supreme Court. (ANI)
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