EPS loses grip as storms in the AIADMK teacup indicate
1 month, 2 weeks ago

EPS loses grip as storms in the AIADMK teacup indicate

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: The overwhelming victory in the Erode East Assembly by-election and a series of storms in the AIADMK teacup have led to the DMK speculating on the AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami losing his grip over the party, whose cadre, as Law Minister S Regupathy claimed, had already started gravitating towards the DMK. A sign of rebellion was perceptible when senior leader of the AIADMK, K A Sengottaiyan, kept away from the meeting organized to felicitate Palaniswami for ensuring that the Athikadavu-Avinashi irrigation project, conceived 67 years ago, in the Kongu region became a reality – the project was commissioned in August by Chief Minister M K Stalin – and then blamed the organisers for not giving due credit to party icons M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa. While AIADMK organization secretary D Jayakumar made light of the ‘boycott’ by saying that the felicitation was organized by the farmers of the region and hence the party had no say on dictating whose pictures should be on the invitation – the ruse of Sengottaiyan was that though he had pointed out that the photographs of MGR and Jayalalithaa were not in the invitation in advance no amends were made. In another party meeting, a former Minister Gokula Indira had openly resented that senior leaders were not getting due respect in the party and there was no way of airing grievances with the general secretary, causing a flutter at the event.

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