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The AIADMK group, led by its wide caput and erstwhile Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026), attacked the rebel group, led by erstwhile Ministers C.Ve. Shanmugam and S.P. Velumani, successful the enactment for accusing Mr. Palaniswami of having attempted to signifier a authorities with the enactment of the DMK.
In a station connected its societal media grip (@AIADMKOfficial), the radical contended that an “assembly” of those who could not registry electoral occurrence successful their location districts was “dishing retired a bundle of lies.”
Earlier successful the day, Mr. Shanmugam said the party’s legislators had elected Mr. Velumani arsenic their person and chosen to enactment the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government.
The Palaniswami campy wondered whether this was the “grand plan” the different had been moving retired each these days — picking up immoderate rumours from the media astir an confederation with the DMK. “Do you judge that the aforesaid media had adjacent reported that the 3 of you had approached the TVK for ministership?”
The radical besides asked, erstwhile the Velumani-Shanmugam campy had admitted that it was going to enactment the ruling party, “why is it that you had a backstage treatment with [former Minister] V. Senthilbalaji of the DMK for fractional an hr yesterday [May 11]?
Questioning the locus standi of the rebels successful taking a determination connected behalf of the AIADMK, the Palaniswami radical referred to astir 1.34 crore votes secured by the AIADMK-led confederation nether the enactment of the erstwhile Chief Minister successful the Assembly predetermination and accused the rebels of abandoning volunteers of the enactment and trusted allies specified arsenic the BJP, the PMK and the AMMK for the involvement of capturing power.
Praising Mr. Palaniswami for protecting and sustaining the AIADMK, the radical said the cadres “exist due to the fact that of and for” him. It besides stated that “this question does not beryllium to a fewer MLAs. It is simply a question of volunteers. Whenever the question faced a crisis, the determination of the cadres had lone yet prevailed,” the radical observed, adding that “now, the cadres person made their decision!”
