The AIADMK’s general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami registered a major legal victory on Friday, August 25, 2023 with a Division Bench of the Madras High Court refusing to interfere with his election to the party post. The Bench also refused to interfere with the expulsion of former coordinator O. Panneerselvam and three of his supporters from the party that took place through a special resolution passed at the party’s July 11, 2022 general council meet.
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The third Division Bench of Justices R. Mahadevan and Mohammed Shaffiq dismissed all original side appeals preferred by Mr. Panneerselvam, P.H. Manoj Pandian, R. Vaithilingam and J.C.D. Prabhakar against the March 28 refusal of Justice K. Kumaresh Babu, to grant them any kind of interim relief in their civil suits. These civil suits were preferred against four regular resolutions passed by the party, with regard to the abolition of the posts of coordinator and joint coordinator, and the revival of the post of general secretary.
