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Senior AIADMK leader K.A. Sengottaiyan, who called for the unification of assorted factions, connected Thursday met expelled enactment leaders O. Panneerselvam, T.T.V. Dhinakaran, and V.K. Sasikala during the guru puja of Muthuramalinga Thevar at Pasumpon in Ramanathapuram district. He besides travelled with Mr. Panneerselvam in the latter’s vehicle.
Reacting to the development, AIADMK general caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami, who besides attended the guru puja, accused Mr. Sengottaiyan of moving against the enactment for long. Mr. Palaniswami told journalists successful Madurai that Mr. Sengottaiyan’s “sabotage” led to the party’s decision successful Anthiyur in the 2021 Assembly election. He added that helium would not hesitate to instrumentality enactment against Mr. Sengottaiyan. “Due process volition beryllium followed,” helium said.
The AIADMK leader, who has rejected the request for re-inducting the expelled leaders into the party, said it was a “waste of time” to sermon the coming-together of Mr. Sengottaiyan and the erstwhile AIADMK leaders. “They person appeared together, going by their precise aged plan,” helium said.
When asked astir Mr. Dhinakaran’s statement that the leaders had travel unneurotic to decision the “betrayer”, Mr. Palaniswami said the AMMK leader had been making specified statements for the past 4 years.
“The Anthiyur Assembly constituency is an AIADMK bastion. We won determination adjacent erstwhile the enactment got split. But we mislaid successful Anthiyur in 2021 lone due to the fact that of the betrayal by Mr. Sengottaiyan,” Mr. Palaniswami said. “Even yesterday, Mr. Panneerselvam said the DMK would triumph the 2026 Assembly election. Is helium the antheral moving for the integration of the AIADMK factions? No existent AIADMK worker volition accidental so. These radical are the ‘B team’ of the DMK,” helium said.
Stating that weeds successful the enactment had been removed, Mr. Palaniswami asserted that the AIADMK was poised for triumph successful the adjacent Assembly election.
Earlier, successful Ramanathapuram, Mr. Dhinakaran described the coming-together arsenic a motion of unity, and said different developments would travel shortly. Speaking astatine a associated property league aft paying homage to Thevar, helium said, “The coming-together could beryllium understood arsenic the opening of the overthrow of the betrayers; resuming Amma’s [former CM Jayalalithaa’s] bully governance; and bringing each her followers nether 1 umbrella.”
Mr. Dhinakaran said helium and Mr. Panneerselvam had already been together, and Mr. Sengottaiyan, a staunch loyalist of Jayalalithaa, joining them was a caller development.
“I person ever insisted that to bring backmost the regularisation of Jayalalithaa, we, her followers, should travel together,” Mr. Panneerselvam said. As they “got the blessings” of Thevar, they believed much affirmative developments would follow.
Mr. Sengottaiyan said they had travel unneurotic to honour the sacrifices of Jayalalithaa. “I had pressed for the unification to overthrow the DMK government and bring the AIADMK back into power,” helium added.
