Sasikala to be taken back into AIADMK? Panneerselvam, Palaniswami to decide soon

Recently, the Theni district committee of the party had passed a resolution stating that Sasikala be reinducted into the AIADMK.

Chennai: AIADMK Chief Coordinator O Panneerselvam and Coordinator Edappadi K. Palaniswami will be meeting soon to sort out the issue of the re-entry of former interim general secretary of the party VK Sasikala into the party.

On Wednesday, the Theni district committee of the party had passed a resolution stating that both Sasikala and her nephew and Chairman of AMMK, T.T.V. Dhinakaran be reinducted into the AIADMK. The meeting, which was held at the farmhouse of Panneerselvam, was presided by the party Theni district secretary, Syed Khan.

OPS has, according to sources in the party, told the meeting that if they bring out a resolution, he would take it to the party high command.

The Palaniswami camp has been vociferous in their opposition to the re-entry of Sasikala into the party fold and several leaders who are close to the former Chief Minister, including D.Jayakumar and CVe Shanmugham, had lashed out against the former aide of late Chief Minister, J. Jayalalithaa.

A group of leaders reportedly close to EPS had, on Thursday, met OPS and held a detailed discussion with the latter at his Theni farmhouse and expressed the anxiety of EPS on the resolution passed by the district committee of the party in which Panneerselvam was also present.