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With the AIADMK’s rebel person and erstwhile coordinator O. Panneerselvam firmly denying connected Friday (December 5, 2025) that helium had planned to motorboat a party, governmental circles person been abuzz with speculation astir his instrumentality to the Dravidian major.
Though the AIADMK’s wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami has been repeatedly asserting against the re-admission of his erstwhile colleague, what has triggered the latest circular of governmental chatter is the recent gathering betwixt Mr. Panneerselvam and Union Minister for Home Affairs and elder BJP leader, Amit Shah, successful New Delhi.
On record, the AIADMK’s erstwhile coordinator, who present runs the ADMK Workers’ Rights Retrieval Committee, has said that helium discussed the wide governmental concern successful the State with Mr. Shah and conveyed that each pro-AIADMK forces, which are present scattered, should travel together.
Another crushed that has paved the mode for speech astir Mr. Panneerselvam is the likelihood of the instrumentality of different aged subordinate of the enactment and erstwhile MLA and MP, K.C. Palanisamy, to the organisation. He had been a bitter professional of the party. Of late, helium has turned his disapproval towards the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) arsenic well.
There is simply a presumption wrong the enactment that the erstwhile lawmaker’s comeback mightiness erase the perception, to a definite extent, that the AIADMK has been losing galore of its second-rung and elder leaders either to the DMK oregon the TVK, arsenic tin beryllium seen from the decisions of the AIADMK’s two-time legislator R. Chinnasamy and erstwhile MPs, V. Maitreyan and A. Anwhar Raajhaa, who had each crossed implicit the DMK, and erstwhile School Education Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan, who opted to articulation the TVK.
As for Mr. Panneerselvam, a cross-section of leaders successful the AIADMK either repetition Mr. Palaniswami’s presumption oregon explicit ignorance astir their wide caput contemplating changing his stand. While not oblivious to the dictum successful the State authorities that “anything is possible,” astir of them accidental that the doors look to person been unopen to their erstwhile coordinator.
On Mr. Panneerselvam’s contiguous disinclination to commencement a party, a seasoned legislator says the erstwhile coordinator whitethorn person developed 2nd thoughts astir the idea, arsenic the AIADMK whitethorn not widen afloat practice to a caller enactment if his radical ends up being accommodated nether the BJP’s quota of seats, which was done successful the 2001 Assembly polls, erstwhile the TMC(M) allotted 14 seats to the Congress.
The question earlier the AIADMK is however to instrumentality Mr. Panneerselvam back, successful the lawsuit of Mr. Palaniswami becoming receptive to the idea. The anticipation of restoring the station of coordinator to the rebel person seems to beryllium distant arsenic it was implicit the question of enactment – azygous oregon dual – that the differences betwixt the camps of Mr. Palaniswami and Mr. Panneerselvam came to the fore successful 2022. Besides, having established himself good successful the presumption of wide secretary, Mr. Palaniswami would not similar to person immoderate power-sharing with his erstwhile colleague.
It remains to beryllium seen whether the party’s wide council, scheduled to conscionable connected December 10, volition supply clarity implicit the matter.
