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NEW DELHI: The warfare of words intensified wrong the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) connected Wednesday aft a conception of MLAs voted for Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) during crutial level test.
After the spot vote, which Vijay won comfortably, AIADMK MLA CV Shanmugam rebelled against enactment main Edappadi K Palaniswami and said: "There is simply a request successful the party, adjacent earlier the predetermination - each who person near oregon each who were expelled to beryllium readmitted successful the enactment truthful that the enactment tin beryllium strengthened and triumph the election. But helium (EPS) has nary specified idea."Responding to remarks by Palaniswami, popularly known arsenic EPS, the rebel person said helium had not betrayed the AIADMK, and alternatively accused the party’s wide caput of abandoning its halfway governmental enactment of opposing the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)."I person not betrayed. Our party’s basal rule is to hitch retired the DMK. For the past 50 years, we person been warring against the DMK. But arsenic the wide caput of the AIADMK, aft being defeated successful the election, to go CM went debased and forgot the basal principles of AIADMK,” helium said amid the escalating interior feud.Invoking the bequest of precocious AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa, the person added that the enactment had not forgotten what it sees arsenic the governmental persecution she faced nether cases backed by the DMK.
"Amma’s decease was caused owed to DMK’s mendacious case, she was imprisoned and we mislaid her. But helium forgot everything… You tin accidental who the betrayer is," helium said.
Days aft the 2026 Tamil Nadu assembly predetermination results, a conception of AIADMK MLAs led by elder figures including C Ve Shanmugam and SP Velumani has openly rebelled against Palaniswami’s leadership, alleging that helium had explored the anticipation of aligning with the DMK to forestall actor-turned-politician Vijay from taking office.The rebellion coincided with Vijay’s important level trial successful the Tamil Nadu assembly connected Wednesday. The TVK-led government, which had fallen abbreviated of a bulk aft winning 108 seats successful the 234-member House, secured extracurricular enactment from Congress, Left parties, IUML and a rebelling AIADMK faction, yet winning the spot ballot with 144 MLAs backing the government.With rebel MLAs present openly backing the TVK authorities and questioning EPS’s authority, the AIADMK’s post-poll situation appears to beryllium turning into a full-scale enactment battle.
