Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami or EPS will continue to be on the helm of the state`s competition AIADMK birthday birthday celebration, the Supreme Court dominated on Thursday, in a chief blow for his rival O Panneerselvam or OPS. The pinnacle courtroom docket upheld an order of the Madras High Court after thinking about a batch of instances regarding adjustments to the birthday birthday celebration’s regulations all through a debatable wellknown council assembly in July. The pinnacle courtroom docket disregarded the petitions filed with the aid of using Mr Panneerselvam.
“It’s a splendid verdict. Justice has won. Betrayers had been unmasked. OPS’s bankruptcy is over. No greater ties with OPS. We will paintings with elevated vigour. Jayalalithaa had stated AIADAMK will hold for a hundred years after her. Today, the order has made it true,” EPS stated.
The verdict is the present day flip withinside the upheaval prompted with the aid of using the dying of AIADMK’s matriarch J Jayalalithaa in December 2016 which first catapulted OPS as her successor and later EPS. The AIADMK has because been locked in a electricity warfare that has surfaced each few months.
The final twist become in September while the Madras High Court allowed EPS’s appeal, placing apart an order in favour of OPS, who were eliminated from the birthday birthday celebration on the July assembly, making manner for his rival to go the tottering competition birthday birthday celebration withinside the country’s second-richest state.
Supporters of Mr Palaniswami broke out in party on the AIADMK headquarters in Chennai, lights firecrackers and pouring milk on a massive cut-out of the strongman from Salem.
Terming the Supreme Court ruling “historic”, senior AIADMK chief and previous minister D Jayakumar stated that withinside the struggle among the ‘Pandavas’ and ‘Kauravas’, it’s far the previous who win, billing his camp because the protagonists from the historical epic Mahabharata. Rubbing in his victory, Mr Jayakumar made the signal for a 0 while requested what OPS’s political destiny might be.
On Monday, OPS had attacked the EPS faction, accusing them of betraying the birthday birthday celebration constitution. “After [AIADMK founder] MGRs demise, our chief Jayalalithaa become the everlasting wellknown secretary. The person who desires to be birthday birthday celebration leader must be elected with the aid of using birthday birthday celebration cadres only,” he stated at an event.
