Former Chief Minister Edappadi Ok Palaniswami, now the sixth general secretary of the AIADMK, seen in Chennai on Tuesday
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Edappadi Ok. Palaniswami, who assumed cost as general secretary of the AIADMK on Saturday, is the sixth individual to carry the submit.
Former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who died in December 2016, was the final full-fledged occupant of the submit. Even although the get together’s general council, at its assembly on December 29 that 12 months, elected Jayalalithaa’s shut aide, V.Ok. Sasikala because the general secretary, this was questioned strongly by former Assembly Speaker P.H. Pandian later. In the primary week of February 2017, senior get together chief Panruti S. Ramachandran, who was then along with her camp, clarified that Ms. Sasikala’s place was that of interim general secretary.
Before she started her four-year-long jail sentence in Bengaluru in the midst of that month, Ms. Sasikala made former MP and her nephew, T.T.V. Dhinakaran, the get together’s deputy general secretary. In just a few months nevertheless, the group led by Mr. Palaniswami turned towards him and determined to hitch arms with the camp of Mr. Panneerselvam.
At the September 2017 general council assembly, when factions led by Mr. Palaniswami and former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam got here collectively, the submit of general secretary was abolished. An modification was made to the get together’s by-laws, by declaring Jayalailthaa because the “eternal general secretary.” Instead, two posts: coordinator and co-coordinator (joint coordinator), have been created. Mr. Panneerselvam and Mr. Palaniswami have been appointed to the posts respectively.
Five years later, after variations erupted between the 2 leaders, one other modification was made, repealing the rule that described Jayalalithaa because the “eternal general secretary” of the get together. The submit of general secretary was revived and until the election befell, Mr. Palaniswami had been made the interim general secretary. Then, Mr. Pannerselvam and some of his supporters have been expelled from the get together.
The first to carry the submit of general secretary was former Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran, who based the get together in October 1972 following his exit from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). He occupied it until June 1978. When experiences of infighting within the AIADMK cropped up eight years later, MGR took again the submit in October 1986 and held it until his dying in December 1987.
V.R. Nedunchezhian, who joined the AIADMK in September 1977, was initially made the officiating general secretary and subsequently, the full-fledged general secretary in January 1979. Nedunchezhian needed to give up the submit in June 1980 after he turned Finance Minister. P.U. Shanmugam succeeded him. Consequent to changing into Local Administration Minister in March 1985, he resigned from the submit.
S. Raghavanandam, who was Labour Minister in MGR’s Cabinet throughout 1977-85, turned the subsequent general secretary. He went on to carry it for practically one and a half years. After MGR’s dying, the get together suffered a cut up. On January 1, 1988, Jayalalithaa, who was the then propaganda secretary, introduced that she assumed the general secretaryship of the get together, in response to, what was claimed, a request conveyed by 15 district secretaries of the get together. For a while, this group was described as AIADMK (Jayalalithaa).
The different faction owing allegiance to MGR’s widow Janaki Ramachandran got here to be known as the AIADMK (Janaki). Raghavanandam, who was a senior deputy general secretary on the time of the cut up, turned the general secretary in-charge of this faction. After the 2 factions suffered heavy reverses within the 1989 Assembly elections, they got here collectively and have become the unified AIADMK. Jayalalithaa held the submit until her dying.
