The Madras High Court on Tuesday rejected a plea by V.K. Sasikala, a close aide of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa till the latter’s death, to declare that she continues to be the AIADMK’s interim general secretary ever since her appointment to the post on December 29, 2016.
A Division Bench of Justices R. Subramanian and N. Senthilkumar dismissed three appeal suits as well as a civil revision petition filed by her last year urging the High Court to set aside the orders passed by an Additional City Civil Court in Chennai, which had on April 11, 2022 rejected her plaint seeking such a declaration.
“These appeals and the revision symbolise the power tussle in one of the major political parties in Tamil Nadu. The AIADMK was founded by Dr. M.G. Ramachandran, a star of yesteryears, in 1972,” began the verdict penned by the senior judge in the Division Bench. The verdict went on to list various developments that took place in the party since its inception and pointed out that there was a rift in the party pursuant to the resignation of O. Panneerselvam (currently expelled from the party) from the post of Chief Minister on February 7, 2017.
