A day after a chaotic AIADMK general council meeting in which party workers booed its leader O. Panneerselvam, steering committee member and former Law Minister C.Ve. Shanmugam on Friday claimed the tenure of the party’s coordinator Panneerselvam and the co-coordinator Edappadi K. Palaniswami ended on Thursday, as the amendment in the bylaws that facilitated their election to those positions were not validated by the general council.
“As of today, Mr. Panneerselvam is the party’s treasurer and Mr. Palaniswami is party’s headquarters secretary,” claimed Mr. Shanmugam during his interaction with journalists outside the residence of Mr. Palaniswami in Chennai.
Flanked by senior AIADMK leaders S.P. Velumani, D. Jayakumar, Udumalai K. Radhakrishnan, C. Vijayabaskar, Pollachi V. Jayaraman, Thalavai Sundaram, among others, Mr. Shanmugam cited party rules to reject claims by rebel AIADMK leader R. Vaithilingam (who has taken sides with Mr. Panneerselvam) that the general council meeting held on Thursday was illegal.
