A day after demanding that 129 MLAs, staying in a private resort, should be released, Tamil Nadu’s caretaker Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam will visit state secretariat on Monday afternoon.
Panneerselvam has said that the MLAs should be released and they should meet people in their respective constituencies to get a sense of the public mood.
However, With no solution in sight for government formation, AIADMK has asserted that a majority of its MLAs are behind General Secretary V K Sasikala and claimed the chances of Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao “inviting” her today were “high.”
Party spokesperson Vaigai Chelvan said Chief Minister O Panneerselvam had the support of seven MLAs and cannot therefore prove his majority in the state Assembly in the event of a floor test.
“He says he can prove his majority based on the wrong information given by someone. Majority of the AIADMK MLAs are with Chinnamma (Sasikala) and we are ready to prove our strength (in a floor test),” he told.
Sasikala was the elected Legislature Party leader of AIADMK and therefore the Governor should invite her to form government, he added.
“We expect the chances of his inviting (meeting) her today are high,” he said.
Meanwhile, struggling to keep her flock of MLAs together after desertion by 10 MPs to rival O Panneerselvam camp, AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala has trashed allegation they have been held “hostage” at a resort.
Sasikala, who is locked in a fierce battle of attrition with Panneerselvam, said the MLAs were staying at the resort near here of their own accord and that they were “free”.
Panneerselvam, however, claimed the MLAs were held there against their will and “tortured” and sought their “release”.
Sasikala, who had earlier in the day observed that it was “very difficult” to be a woman in politics, said there were efforts to “intimidate” her as she was a woman, but asserted she would not be cowed down.
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