TTV and Dhivakaran factions will disappear: Edappadi K Palaniswami

Chennai: With squabbling erupting on multiple platforms within the Sasikala clan in recent weeks, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Monday said the factions led by both TTV Dhinakaran and his uncle V.Dhivakaran “will soon disappear into thin air”. Speaking to reporters at the Coimbatore airport, the CM said cracks had already developed in the party recently floated in the name of Amma (Jayalalithaa) by TTV Dhinakaran. “Now we will see if Dhivakaran's party will come into being. Both of them have launched their parties hoping to get the two-leaves symbol (of the AIADMK), but they are sure to vanish. They will not last. There is no public support for them, whatsoever”, he said.

With Dhivakaran going hammer and tongs at blaming nephew TTV for all the setbacks suffered by ‘Amma’ Jayalalithaa, ‘akka’ Sasikala and the AIADMK, Justice Arumugasamy Commission probing Jayalalithaa's hospitalisation and death has sent him summons to appear on May 3. Both the uncle and nephew have been claiming exclusive proximity to Sasikala, now in Bengaluru jail convicted in corruption case, and accusing each other of misleading her into misery.

Meanwhile, state information minister Kadambur Raju has said the agitation against TTV by some women flaunting 20-rupee notes when he had gone to his RK Nagar constituency for a thanks-giving rally on Sunday, “only proved he had won by buying votes” in the December 2017 by-poll. It had been alleged during the election campaign at that time that the TTV poll managers had distributed 20-rupee notes among the voters with the promise they could redeem those notes for hefty money after the election.