Deposed AIADMK chief O Panneerselvam on Friday mentioned the Supreme Court judgement that allowed Edappadi Okay Palaniswami to proceed as get together interim chief is just not a setback and asserted that he would go to the folks and search justice.
In his first official response to the highest court docket’s ruling, Panneerselvam mentioned no verdict is a setback for them. “Only after this judgment, our party workers are enthused more,” he advised reporters.
The embattled chief additionally wrote to the Election Commission of India (ECI), urging it to not entertain any modifications within the get together by-laws in addition to within the hierarchy of the AIADMK primarily based on “the illegal resolutions” dated July 11, 2022. He mentioned he’ll file a civil go well with as regards the resolutions.
Asserting that the ‘Dharma Yudham’ is on, Panneerselvam, popularly often called OPS mentioned he and his followers would go to the folks to hunt justice. The marketing campaign to succeed in out to the folks would start quickly and it could be held district-wise throughout the State.
“We will seek justice by standing on the side of dharma.” So far the focus of his camp was on court docket issues and to any extent further they’d work on going to the folks.
“We fought it out in the apex court. Our battalion has started. We will go to the people’s court,” he mentioned and added that they’d get a very good verdict from the folks.
Answering a query on accusations hurled in opposition to him and his followers that they’re the ruling DMK’s ‘B’ workforce, Panneerselvam mentioned ‘they (Palaniswami camp) are the A to Z team’ of DMK.
“Can they accuse us over a single thing? There are a thousand things, these will come out one after the other,” he mentioned. They have been affected person to date contemplating get together self-discipline and to make sure that the get together doesn’t ‘break-up,’ OPS added.
R Vaithilingam, a staunch loyalist of OPS demanded to know the result of a number of instances together with graft instances in opposition to followers of EPS. A former Minister, Vaithilingam additionally referred to the Kodanadu homicide and heist case.
Referring to EPS camp’s assertion that they’d not take again OPS, VK Sasikala and her relative TTV Dhinakaran, the previous CM puzzled if the get together was established by Palaniswami. The EPS workforce is boastful and they might be subdued by the folks and get together employees.
Sasikala is the confidante of late Jayalalithaa.
OPS reiterated that no one has the authority to annul the get together by-law that get together matriarch J Jayalalithaa is the everlasting common secretary.
The AIADMK is a celebration of employees and founder M G Ramachandran bestowed on get together employees the fitting to elect the highest chief. However, 10 district secretaries ought to suggest an individual and it wanted to be seconded by an equal variety of secretaries. Such issues can’t be executed, he mentioned.
Noted Panneerselvam supporter Manoj Pandian and different loyalists mentioned that the highest court docket’s ruling has given full scope for additional authorized motion within the High Court.
Hence, the matter could be mentioned and brought ahead. “Our case in the Supreme Court was that the General Council (July 11,2022) should have been convened only by OPS and EPS together. They both have to affix their signature for that. That was our case. We did not go into resolutions at all.” There is just not even a single line within the judgment saying that the resolutions adopted within the General Council are legitimate. “There is nothing in the SC judgment that endorsed elevation of Palaniswami as interim general secretary or the expulsion of Panneerselvam and his followers,” they mentioned. Such vital modifications and selections have been carried out by means of adoption of resolutions.
Panneerselvam loyalists mentioned that the SC ruling has made it clear that the judgement is just not binding in respect of pending civil fits in reference to modifications to get together management and associated issues.
The resolutions –that elevated EPS as interim chief and expelled OPS and his followers– haven’t come into power, they emphasised.
Meanwhile, in his letter to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, citing the SC ruling, OPS mentioned the court docket “has considered only the issue whether the convening of the general council on July 11, 2022 is in accordance with law…” However, with regard to the legality and the validity of the resolutions “said to have been passed on 11.07.22 general council meeting,” the Court has explicitly held that “in the interest of justice, we leave all the related aspects concerning the said resolutions open to be agitated, but strictly in accordance with law; and all the objections and rebuttals of the contesting parties are also kept open,” he mentioned, quoting from the apex court docket order.
“In view of the above, I am filing a civil suit in respect of the resolutions adopted on July 11, 2022 and therefore I am bringing it to your notice that the resolutions are not validly passed and request you not to entertain any changes in the by-laws of the party based” on the July 11 resolutions, he advised the CEC within the letter.
“I also intend to continue agitating the pending civil suits to the fullest extent,” OPS added.
Any modifications made within the get together hierarchy would “seriously prejudice” his authorized rights within the proposed go well with and would trigger “irreparable loss,” and “parallel adjudication” the previous chief minister contended.