AIADMK reunion on the cards? EPS and OPS camps kick off talks today

April 24, 2017 07:54

AIADMK factions led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami and his predecessor O Panneerselvam will begin formal merger talks on Monday, three days after they formed their respective committees to hold discussions.

Rajya Sabha MP R Vaithilingam will head the panel set up by the Palaniswami group, while the Panneerselvam camp has named senior leader and former minister KP Munusamy as the head of a seven-member committee. Former ministers C Ponnaiyan, R Viswanathan and K Pandiarajan, Rajya Sabha MP V Maithreyan, former MP TH Manoj Pandian and former MLA JCD Prabhakar were the other members.

Informal talks between the two camps appeared to have hit a roadblock last week with the Panneerselvam camp seeking formal expulsion of VK Sasikala and her nephew TTV Dinakaran from the party.

It had also sought a CBI probe into the circumstances leading to former chief minister Jayalalithaa's death on December 5 last year.

Hardening its stance, the OPS camp had also demanded that 30 members of the Sasikala family be formally expelled from the party.

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