AIADMK to meet on Sept 12 as part of process to remove Sasikala

In Tamil Nadu, the AIADMK has announced that the party general council and executive committee will meet on September 12 as part of the process to remove V K Sasikala from the post of general secretary.

Chief Minister EK Palaniswami, deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam and their supporters met at the party headquarters in Chennai yesterday. 

After the meeting they passed a resolution to hold the general council and executive



committee meeting to pave the way for the ouster of Sasikala and her nephew T T V Dhinakaran, who is the party's deputy general secretary. The MLAs supporting Dhinakaran were not invited.

The expulsion of Sasikala had been the main demand of the O Panneerselvam camp prior to the formal merger of the two factions on August 21. A release said, the meeting will be presided over by party presidium chairman E Madhusudhanan.