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In what is seen as a major setback to All Indian Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam interim General Secretary Edappady K Palaniswami (EPS), the Madras high court on Wednesday ordered maintaining status-quo as was the case on June 23 in the matter relating to the conduct of the July 11 General Council meet of the main opposition party in Tamil Nadu.
As per PTI report, The general council, AIADMK’s highest decision-making body, ‘expelled’ rival leader O Panneerselvam and some of his associates from the party amid his leadership tussle with Palaniswami, who was picked as the interim general secretary of the party by the GC members.
The order passed by Justice G Jayachandran on Wednesday, in effect held invalid the July 11 GC meeting.
The judge held that the co-ordinator and the joint co-ordinator alone shall convene the GC meeting. He also suggested nomination of an observer to conduct the meeting.
The court was passing orders on the civil suits from O Panneerselvam and GC member Vairamuthu, today.
There is no place for dictatorship in party. All should unite and those who left party must return. Sacrifice and patience are qualities a leader must possess. If needed, we’ll discuss (on unison of OPS & EPS), party cadres will not change, O Pannerselvam told ANI
Explaining further , O Pannerselvam told ANI, This is a historical judgement. We got full victory because of this judgement. If anyone comes forward to join us, we’ll welcome them. AIADMK cadre’s wishes came true. We will respect and act in accordance with High Court judgement.
