TTV Dinakaran rules out revolt against him by ministers, calls it ‘rumours’
AIADMK (Amma) Deputy General Secretary TTV Dinakaran denied speculations on Friday that some state Ministers had revolted against him.
“There is no such information, it could be a rumour,” he told reporters here.
He was responding to a query on speculations that some of the AIADMK ministers had revolted against him and wanted him to be removed as the party’s Deputy General Secretary. The ruling party had suffered a vertical split after the death of the late Chief Minister and former AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalithaa in December last, following which her close aide VK Sasikala was appointed as the party chief.
However, in February this year, former Chief Minister Panneerselvam had revolted against Sasikala, alleging he was forced to make way for her to become Chief Minister of the state. Subsequently, AIADMK suffered a split, with some MPs and MLAs joining the Panneerselvam camp even as Chief Minister K Palaniswami, a Sasikala loyalist, survived a confidence vote in the state Assembly.
Sasikala is since serving a jail term in connection with the Rs 66 crore disproportionate assets case in Bengaluru. To a question, Dinakaran said he did not see any central government interference on the issue of freezing of AIADMK’s two leaves symbol …read more
