R Panneerselvam

O Panneerselvam, leader of the rebel AIADMK camp, on Monday appointed his loyalist R Vaithilingam as the party's joint coordinator and 'expelled' 10 office-bearers.

Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam today said that the AIADMK high command would decide about the candidate for the R K Nagar assembly bypolls.

AIADMK's rebel camp led by former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam on Thursday fielded veteran leader E Madhusudanan as their candidate for the R K Nagar assembly constituency, which was represented by former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

Reiterating his Cabinet colleague O Panneerselvam's claim, Electricity Minister Natham R Viswanathan today said Union Minister Piyush Goyal's remark that he could not reach out to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is false and part of "cheap politics".

Days after AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa rejigged the party's core team ahead of Assembly elections next year, the new office bearers today called on her and took her blessings.

Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal on Thursday suspended all lawmakers of the state's main opposition party from the rest of the ongoing Assembly session, after one of them made an allegedly disparaging remark about Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, in relation to the result of the disproprtionate assets case against her.

Vigilance officials today conducted raids in the premises of former DMK minister N K K P Raja across Tamil Nadu in connection with a disproportionate assets case. The raids by officials of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption were in progress in Chennai and Erode districts, DVAC sources said.

O Panneerselvam, leader of the rebel AIADMK camp, on Monday appointed his loyalist R Vaithilingam as the party's joint coordinator and 'expelled' 10 office-bearers.

Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam today said that the AIADMK high command would decide about the candidate for the R K Nagar assembly bypolls.

AIADMK's rebel camp led by former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam on Thursday fielded veteran leader E Madhusudanan as their candidate for the R K Nagar assembly constituency, which was represented by former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

Reiterating his Cabinet colleague O Panneerselvam's claim, Electricity Minister Natham R Viswanathan today said Union Minister Piyush Goyal's remark that he could not reach out to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is false and part of "cheap politics".

Days after AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa rejigged the party's core team ahead of Assembly elections next year, the new office bearers today called on her and took her blessings.

Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal on Thursday suspended all lawmakers of the state's main opposition party from the rest of the ongoing Assembly session, after one of them made an allegedly disparaging remark about Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, in relation to the result of the disproprtionate assets case against her.

Vigilance officials today conducted raids in the premises of former DMK minister N K K P Raja across Tamil Nadu in connection with a disproportionate assets case. The raids by officials of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption were in progress in Chennai and Erode districts, DVAC sources said.