Days after facing a hostile environment and literally being sidelined at the AIADMK general council meeting last Thursday, party leader O. Panneerselvam said on Sunday that he would not be cowed down by threats. He undertook a road show from Madurai to his home town Theni in a “show of strength”.
Mr. Panneerselvam, who strongly opposes former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s bid to undo the AIADMK’s dual leadership structure and take over as its supreme leader, had left for New Delhi on Thursday night to accompany NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu during the filing of her nomination. He returned to Madurai by a scheduled flight from Chennai on Sunday afternoon.
Stating that the people and AIADMK workers would soon come to know the truth [about the developments in the party], he told journalists, “Some forces are bent on tarnishing the party’s image. I will not be cowed by such threats. The day is not far off and the true colours of mischief-mongers would come out in the open.”
