Breaking his silence on the friction with senior colleague O. Panneerselvam since the leadership tussle broke out in the AIADMK, former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Thursday accused him of having taken all steps to make the party “inoperative”. He said the posts of coordinator and co-coordinator, created five years ago, no longer existed.
Mr. Palaniswami rejected Mr. Panneerselvam’s request to forward the ‘A’ and ‘B’ forms for fielding party candidates in the local body by-elections on the ‘two leaves’ symbol.
