Dhinakaran calls it ‘temporary respite’ for EPS

TIRUCHY: The court verdict is a temporary respite to Edappadi K Palaniswami and this will never get a moral boost to AIADMK in the Erode East bypoll, said the AMMK general secretary TTV Dhinakaran here on Thursday.

Speaking to reporters, Dhinakaran said, the court has approved only the general body meeting but not the resolutions passed in the meeting and so it suggests that the OPS faction can go for an appeal and thus, the verdict will give a temporary relief to EPS, he said.

Claiming that the AIADMK was being operated by the BJP from 2017, Dhinakaran said, if the party symbol goes with EPS, it will decline further. He charged that EPS, with the money power that he obtained through ruling the state, has taken the general body by force. “But time will give a fitting verdict. OPS had won in the first round and EPS in second and third. There are fourth and fifth rounds and so we shall wait and watch what happens in future”, he said.

Meanwhile, supporters of EPS burst crackers in the party headquarters in Chennai and distributed sweets to celebrate the occasion. Supporters of OPS also offered milk abishegams for portrait of EPS and party founder MGR. AIADMK cadre supporting EPS also stopped buses and distributed sweets after they came to known about the apex court order in favour of their leader.