Expelled AIADMK coordinator O. Panneerselvam acquired a sword from cadre on the public assembly his faction held in Tiruchi earlier this week
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The AIADMK’s former coordinator, O. Panneerselvam, who organised a rally in Tiruchi on Monday to mark the launch of his group, is going through the query of whether or not he’ll buck the pattern of those who break away from principal events and find yourself as failures.
Over the previous 40-odd years, there have been a quantity of situations whereby leaders have left the DMK or the AIADMK at one stage or one other, to type their very own events however have finally gone again to their authentic events or have merged their events with some others, or joined fingers with both of the principal events and settled for roles of junior companions.
This can be seen within the examples of S.D. Somasundaram (SDS) and Su. Thirunavukkarasar, each of whom left the AIADMK within the Nineteen Eighties and ‘90s, and Vaiko, who exited from the DMK in 1993. By a coincidence, SDS too had an event to launch his party, Namadhu Kazhagam, in Tiruchi in September 1984 with a 6 km long procession of lorries, tractor trailers, cars and vans, carrying banners. But in the 1984 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, his party’s efficiency was a catastrophe.
Speaking in regards to the SDS episode within the current context, the OPS group’s deputy coordinator, J.C.D. Prabhakar, says Somasundaram, regardless of being no match to the get together’s founder M.G. Ramachandran, each in phrases of widespread enchantment or stature, had made allegations of corruption in opposition to the latter which didn’t go down properly with the get together cadre or folks. But Mr Panneerselvam’s goal of assault is the AIADMK’s common secretary Edappadi Ok. Palaniswami, “who is neither MGR nor Jayalalithaa,” the functionary factors out, contending that the ex-coordinator has been “getting a raw deal” by the hands of the previous and that is making a “favourable opinion” for Mr. Panneerselvam.
Coming down on Mr. Panneerselvam, nonetheless, State secretary of Amma Peravai within the AIADMK and former Revenue Minister, R.B. Udhayakumar, observes that the previous coordinator, who claimed to have held a meet beneath the banner of the AIADMK, didn’t utter “a single word” important of the DMK or the State authorities. “How would this be acceptable to the party cadre who have been raised on an anti-DMK plank?” Mr. Udhayakumar wonders. Besides, the disciplinary motion in opposition to Mr. Panneerselvam was taken collectively by the get together, and never unilaterally. “There was no unfairness in this decision,” the previous Minister provides.
An educational, who has been related to a number of opinion polls performed within the State, says that it isn’t but clear whether or not Mr. Panneerselvam will chart out a path unbiased of the AIADMK or return to the AIADMK’s fold.
