EPS Calls AIADMK MLAs Meet After Being Elected As Interim Chief

Chennai:

Days after being elected as an interim common secretary of AIADMK and ending the management tussle with rival O Paneerselvam (OPS), Edappadi Ok Palaniswami (EPS) will maintain a gathering with social gathering MLAs on July 17, based on the sources.

The assembly shall be held on the residence of EPS on Chennai’s Greenways Highway.

Notably, EPS was elected because the social gathering’s interim Common Secretary at its Common Council assembly held on Monday after the nod by the Madras Excessive Courtroom.

Earlier, the Madras HC rejected a plea by OPS and allowed the final council assembly, which proposes to revive the interim common secretary publish and abolish coordinator in addition to joint coordinator posts to be held.

The HC order was handed at 9 am and the GC assembly led by E Palaniswami on the social gathering workplace in Vanagaram, which was chaired by the presidium chairman A Tamil Mahan Hussain. The assembly handed as many as 16 resolutions, together with one which squashed dual-leadership and created the publish of deputy common secretary and to make sure electing an individual for the publish by the first members of the social gathering. The social gathering election shall be carried out in 4 months.

The social gathering common council chaired by presidium chairman A Tamil Mahan Hussain commenced after the court docket’s nod.

OPS supporter, Kolathur District Secretary, Krishnamurthy obtained hit by a stone thrown by EPS supporters on the social gathering headquarters. The supporters of OPS and EPS additionally burnt posters and banners forward of the assembly.

In the meantime, a complete of 16 resolutions had been handed within the essential All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Common Council assembly held on Monday by which Edappadi Ok Palaniswami was appointed because the social gathering’s interim Common Secretary and O Paneerselvam was expelled for “anti-party” actions.

Together with OPS, his supporters – JCD Prabhakar, R Vaithilingam and PH Manoj Pandian had been additionally expelled from the AIADMK.

The social gathering handed a decision searching for a Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour for E V Ramasamy ‘Periyar’, MG Ramachandran (MGR) and the late chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

After the demise of Jayalalithaa in 2016, the social gathering has been following a dual-leadership system with EPS as co-coordinator and OPS as coordinator. The clamour has been rising louder for a single chief within the social gathering because the district secretary assembly on June 14 this yr.

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