The procedure about which AIADMK leader O. Panneerselvam has been complaining now, with respect to the convening of the general council meeting on July 11 to elect an interim general secretary, is the same one through which the 2017 general council meeting was convened to elect him as the coordinator, former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami told the Madras High Court on Thursday.
Appearing before Justice Krishnan Ramasamy, who is seized of a civil suit filed by Mr. Panneerselvam to stall the July 11 meeting, senior counsel Vijay Narayan, representing Mr. Palaniswami, took exception to the plaintiff’s argument that the general council meeting could be legally convened only by the coordinator and the joint coordinator [co-coordinator] together, whereas the invitation for the July 11 meeting had been extended by the “headquarters office-bearers”.
Recalling the general council meeting held in September 2017 to elect Mr. Panneerselvam as well as Mr. Palaniswami as the coordinator and the joint coordinator respectively since the then interim general secretary, V.K. Sasikala, had been imprisoned in a disproportionate assets case, Mr. Narayan said, “Even then, the invitation was extended only by the ‘headquarters office-bearers’ that he is now terming a faceless and nameless body.”
