It is the insistence of three former ministers on Edappadi Palanisamy that the party cannot move to the next level without removing the OPS from the AIADMK that has now, once again, created a storm within the party.
When the superintendent broke the OPS in two, none of the executives were willing to go with him. Some MLAs and some district secretaries joined the OPS team after the clash with the then ministers. But after the OPS-EPS merger, those who lost their party posts in the AIADMK due to Dharmayutham could not regain their posts. Why Minister Pandiyarajan, who had come to rely on himself, could not even get the school education portfolio he had previously held, even by the OPS.
After about 4 years in power, EPS dominated the party. In matters such as parliamentary elections, by-elections, assembly elections, and coalitions, the EPS conducted separate periodic examinations. But the OBS had made it his habit to only occasionally whip the EPS side. Due to his close association with the BJP upper caste in Delhi, in some respects the going to comply with the OPS. But as far as the party and the regime are concerned, EPS was just thinking.
In this situation, the AIADMK is sitting in the opposition ranks where the regime change took place. Sasikala has started strategizing to capture the AIADMK again. Edappadi Palanisamy is wholeheartedly doing his duty to save the party in this dire situation. But the OPS says the action is not like that. Complaints arose that the OPS was looking at what was personally profitable to him in every activity of the party and that he was accounting for what was good for him rather than what was good for the party.
This is why they say that from the election of the Leader of the Opposition to the election of Korata, there is no support for the OPS within the party. No matter how hard the OPS struggled, his supporter, Manoj Pandian, could not buy the Korata post. Instead, former minister SB Velumani has become the opposition leader. But before the AIADMK takes this decision, there are rumors of a rift within the party due to the whiplash given by the OPS. Meanwhile, Edappadi Palanisamy has decided to pass a resolution on behalf of the AIADMK against Sasikala district-wise across Tamil Nadu.
The resolution has been passed in Viluppuram and Salem. But AIADMK district secretaries say they are thinking of passing a resolution against Sasikala in other districts. EPS supporters are said to be skeptical that OPS may be behind this. Officially, no order has been issued by the AIADMK to pass the resolution on behalf of the district AIADMK against Sasikala. But the EPS side contacted the districts and said they were pushing for the resolution to be passed against Sasikala.
But the OPS is said to be blocking this. Irritated by this, three former ministers have hastily met Edappadi Palanisamy. They insisted that the OBS, which was constantly engaged in anti-party activities, should be removed from the AIADMK immediately, and that a heavy EPS had been blown away by hearing this. However, the trio said that their insistence was not an expression of anger and that only if he was removed could the AIADMK come to power next, but Edappadi Palanisamy would remain silent, on the matter.
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