Three days after DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin directed party functionaries, who had violated the terms of alliance agreement, to resign from their urban civic body posts, Jayaprabha Manivannan, who was elected vice-chairperson of Nellikuppam municipality stepped down from her post on Tuesday.
Sources said Ms. Manivannan resigned from the post after her meeting with the party high command. However, the DMK’s rebel candidate Jayanthi Radhakrishnan, who won the post of municipal chairperson, has refused to resign despite the directive from the high command.
The post of chairperson of the Nellikuppam municipality was allotted to the VCK, a constituent of the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance.
