AIADMK MLAs assembly on Friday to decide on legislative chief amidst OPS-EPS tussle

A gathering of the newly elected All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) MLAs is scheduled to happen Friday on the social gathering headquarters at Royapettah in Chennai.
The assembly takes place within the backdrop of the meeting election outcomes whereby, the AIADMK misplaced the battle in opposition to DMK, paving means for the later to return to energy after a interval of 10 years.
The DMK-led alliance gained 159 seats whereas the AIADMK grabbed 75 seats within the 234-member home. On their very own, DMK gained 133 and AIADMK netted 66 seats.

Over one third of the AIADMK ministers misplaced their seats within the meeting polls. Except for the western area, which has at all times remained an AIADMK fortress, the efficiency of the social gathering in different areas was abysmal. In Chennai, the social gathering misplaced all of the 16 seats.
With the social gathering and its cadres nonetheless taking time to return to phrases with the loss and analyse what went mistaken, there have been few rumblings contained in the AIADMK camp. The social gathering is cut up between social gathering coordinator O Panneerselvam and joint coordinator Edappadi Okay Palaniswami over selecting AIADMK’s Legislature Leader.
In the previous couple of days, a beeline of newly-elected MLAs has been witnessed on the residences of each Edappadi and Panneerselvam. B Valarmathi, one of many senior AIADMK members, additionally visited Edappadi at his residence. After the assembly, she instructed media individuals that the newly-elected MLAs will resolve the opposition chief. When requested about her goal of the go to, she stated it was a courtesy name and added that the social gathering is above people and everybody will observe the choice of the social gathering excessive command.
Party spokesperson Vaigaichelvan stated there’s completely no distinction of opinion throughout the AIADMK camp and the method of electing the Leader of the Opposition can be carried out in a clean method.
“There is no problem at all. A decision would be taken tomorrow (Friday). Senior members are visiting them (EPS, OPS) as a courtesy call post the election results,” he instructed indianexpress.com.
However, few of the senior members, near the social gathering excessive command, have a special say. According to them, OPS had expressed his want to turn into the Leader of the Opposition however EPS stays unmoved. In the conferences with senior leaders submit the election outcomes, OPS had claimed that among the pre-poll selections of EPS like asserting the ten.5 per cent reservation to the Vanniyar neighborhood has backfired for the social gathering.

“It’s true that OPS expressed his desire to become the Leader of the Opposition having served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in the absence of Amma. He sent his set of representatives including one of the senior party coordinators to speak to EPS over this but EPS is stubborn about being the face of the party. He feels that he has saved the party in tough times,” a senior social gathering chief stated.
Meanwhile, the DMK has despatched an invitation to each EPS and OPS for M Okay Stalin’s swearing-in ceremony scheduled to happen Friday at Raj Bhavan in Chennai.