O. Raja, the younger brother of AIADMK coordinator, O. Panneerselvam, and chief of the Theni District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union (Aavin), was on Saturday, expelled from the party.
This follows his meeting with sidelined former interim general secretary, V.K. Sasikala in Tiruchendur. On Friday night, the office of Ms. Sasikala released photographs of the meeting to the media.
On Thursday, Mr. Panneerselvam was said to have conveyed to the party co-coordinator, Edappadi K Palaniswami, his distancing himself from a “unanimous resolution” passed by functionaries in Theni district, belonging to both urban and rural units. The resolution, passed at a meeting held at the farmhouse of the former in Theni on Wednesday, said the party leadership should consider re-admitting both Ms. Sasikala and her nephew, the AMMK’s general secretary, T.T.V. Dhinakaran, “without any pre-condition.”
