New Delhi: TTV Dinakaran, deputy chief of the AIADMK faction led by his aunt VK Sasikala, today summoned a meeting of party's 122 lawmakers today after senior cabinet ministers led by Chief Minister E Palaniswami decided late on Tuesday night to "delink" the party's two bosses from the "government and the party".
The move to dump them came in the midst of negotiations for a merger between AIADMK leaders who had aligned with Ms Sasikala that is in power in Tamil Nadu, and the dozen-odd leaders who backed O Panneerselvam, or OPS, as he is called.
"Dinakaran has called for MLAs meeting today at AIADMK headquarters," said Perambur lawmaker P Vetrivel, hours after a "consultative" meeting chaired by the Chief Minister sealed the ouster of the party's first family.
Mr Dinakaran's decision to summon lawmakers for the meeting at the AIADMK headquarters today, reminiscent of a similar meeting convened by his aunt nearly 70 days earlier when OPS dramatically declared outside J Jayalalithaa's memorial at Marina Beach that he had been forced to resign by Sasikala.
In February, over 100 lawmakers had showed up at Sasikala's late-night meeting. They were later taken to the Golden Bay resort near Chennai in luxury buses where they spent over a week till they showed up in the assembly to vote for E Palanisami, named the party's replacement for Mr Panneerselvam after the Supreme Court convicted Sasikala to four years in a Bengaluru court for corruption.
Emissaries of the two factions had been holding meetings to work out a formula for a possible merger. But O Panneerselvam, who was Ms Jayalalithaa's regular stand-in as Chief Minister, had made Sasikala and her nephew's ouster a pre-condition for his return to the party.
The move to dump them came in the midst of negotiations for a merger between AIADMK leaders who had aligned with Ms Sasikala that is in power in Tamil Nadu, and the dozen-odd leaders who backed O Panneerselvam, or OPS, as he is called.
"Dinakaran has called for MLAs meeting today at AIADMK headquarters," said Perambur lawmaker P Vetrivel, hours after a "consultative" meeting chaired by the Chief Minister sealed the ouster of the party's first family.
Mr Dinakaran's decision to summon lawmakers for the meeting at the AIADMK headquarters today, reminiscent of a similar meeting convened by his aunt nearly 70 days earlier when OPS dramatically declared outside J Jayalalithaa's memorial at Marina Beach that he had been forced to resign by Sasikala.
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In February, over 100 lawmakers had showed up at Sasikala's late-night meeting. They were later taken to the Golden Bay resort near Chennai in luxury buses where they spent over a week till they showed up in the assembly to vote for E Palanisami, named the party's replacement for Mr Panneerselvam after the Supreme Court convicted Sasikala to four years in a Bengaluru court for corruption.
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Emissaries of the two factions had been holding meetings to work out a formula for a possible merger. But O Panneerselvam, who was Ms Jayalalithaa's regular stand-in as Chief Minister, had made Sasikala and her nephew's ouster a pre-condition for his return to the party.
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