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Forests Minister Dindigul C. Srinivasan, who’s a senior AIADMK chief, on Wednesday mentioned the get together backed Chief Minister Edappadi {K}. Palaniswami as its face for the 2021 Assembly election.
Asked concerning the confusion over the get together’s Chief Ministerial candidate, Mr. Srinivasan mentioned the get together backed Mr. Palaniswami. “Mediapersons should wait till October 7, when both the leaders [Mr. Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam] will jointly announce the candidate,” he added.
He described the “tussle” between Mr. Palaniswami and Mr. Panneerselvam on the get together’s current government council assembly as an inside affair. The AIADMK, he felt, would win fingers down within the subsequent elections. On Mr. Panneerselvam’s absence from an official assembly chaired by the Chief Minister, he mentioned the latter was totally conscious of the Deputy CM’s engagements that day. “There is no issue within the party, and internal matters will be settled amicably,” he mentioned.
Meanwhile, two Ministers got here up with completely different variations on why Mr. Panneerselvam didn’t attend the assembly.
Fisheries Minister D. Jayakumar on Wednesday mentioned the pre-occupation of Mr. Panneerselvam, who can also be the AIADMK coordinator, with get together work was the explanation for his absence on the assembly on Tuesday. Just as Mr. Panneerselvam was busy with get together work, Mr. Palaniswami was taking care of the affairs of the federal government, Mr. Jayakumar instructed reporters at his residence in Foreshore Estate, Chennai. As for the omission of the Deputy CM’s title from the invitation to an occasion regarding the Greater Chennai Corporation, the Minister mentioned no motive must be attributed to it. He mentioned, “Going by precedents, the name of the Hon’ble Deputy CM is carried only in respect of invitations for prominent functions organised in Chennai, but this event relates to some wards of the city.”
[However, on another invitation for the same event which did rounds on social media, Mr. Panneerselvam’s name was mentioned].
Separately, Revenue Minister R.B. Udhayakumar, who met the Deputy CM on Tuesday, mentioned as Mr. Panneerselvam was not feeling properly, he couldn’t make it to the assembly. “This was why I had gone to his place to meet him,” he mentioned. As the message relating to his disposition was conveyed to the Chief Minister, the latter went forward with the assembly.
Amid the management tussle, Palladam MLA Karaipudur A. Natarajan on Wednesday endorsed Mr. Palaniswami as the Chief Ministerial candidate for the upcoming polls.
After assembly Mr. Panneerselvam together with Minister {K}. Pandiarajan later within the day, former Villivakkam legislator J.C.D. Prabhakar termed as unsuitable the observations of Mr. Srinivasan on the AIADMK’s CM candidate.
Describing the Forests Minister as a “senior member who knows the history of the party”, he referred to a name collectively issued by Mr. Palaniswami and Mr. Panneerselvam to members of the get together in August, urging them to chorus from making feedback on the get together’s candidate for Chief Minister in the course of the subsequent Assembly election.
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