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Eight days aft the results of the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections came in, 1 of the State’s 2 Dravidian majors — the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) — is facing a divided wrong the party. Former Chief Minister and the party’s wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s enactment of the Legislature Party came into question connected May 11, 2026 aft 30 MLAs reportedly backed different person and erstwhile Minster S.P. Velumani for the position.
On May 12, the rebel group, led by enactment leaders S.P. Velumani and C.Ve. Shanmugam, announced that it would enactment the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), a two-year-old enactment led by actor-politician and present Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay.
Reacting sharply wrong hours, the AIADMK, successful a station connected X, accused the rebels of betraying astir 1.34 crore voters who voted for the AIADMK confederation led by Mr. Palaniswami, and abandoning volunteers of the enactment and allies specified arsenic the BJP, the PMK and the AMMK. It further stated that the organisation does not beryllium to a fewer MLAs and it is simply a question of enactment workers. “Whenever the question faced a crisis, the determination of the cadres had lone yet prevailed,” it added.
However, rebellions are not caller for the enactment arsenic the AIADMK has has seen akin disruptions implicit the years. Here is simply a timeline of events that way dissent wrong the enactment since its enactment successful 1972.
