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Ex-CM to lead delegation to EC against Sasikala’s posting
Expelled AIADMK leader and former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam will lead a nine-member delegation to the Election Commission of India on Wednesday to take up the issue of VK Sasikala’s appointment as AIADMK general secretary.
Chennai
Sources in the Panneerselvam camp said he would be accompanied by Rajya Sabha MP V Maithreyan and former ministers Natham R Viswanathan, KP Munusamy and S Semmalai. The delegation is scheduled to meet Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi around noon on the “recent developments in the AIADMK,” they added.
The Panneerselvam faction has already challenged before the EC Sasikala’s appointment as AIADMK general secretary in December following her predecessor J Jayalalithaa’s demise. The Commission had issued notice to Sasikala, serving a jail term in connection with a Rs 66-crore disproportionate assets case and she had sent her response last week.
Panneerselvam had revolted against Sasikala on February 7, saying he was forced to make way for her elevation as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu following her election as AIADMK Legislature Party leader earlier. She had later expelled him and some of his supporters from the AIADMK.
Meanwhile, an AIADMK member in Lok Sabha demanded a CBI probe on Tuesday into the “mysterious” death of party supremo J Jayalalithaa, with a Union Minister saying it was a matter of “great concern”.
After P R Sundaram, who is affiiated to the rebel party group headed by former chief minister O Panneerselvam raised the demand, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said the matter was of “great concern” but the state government has already ordered a probe and the Centre can act only after its report is submitted.
Sundaram claimed that nobody was allowed to meet Jayalalithaa during her 75 days of hospitalisation and noted that she was said to be suffering from dehydration and fever before it was “suddenly” announced that she had a heart attack following which she died. Kumar said her “sudden demise” “is a mater of great concern to this House and the country” and there is a “feeling that the death had happened under mysterious circumstances”.
He, however, said that the state government has already ordered an inquiry into the matter and it has to be submitted first before the Centre can take any action.
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