A day after AIADMK’s Sasikala faction leader and her nephew TTV Dinakaran raised serious charges against Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami alleging direct links of him and his family with mining baron Sekhar Reddy, Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal on Monday disqualified 18 AIADMK MLAs supporting Dinakaran.
While the immediate impact of the disqualification of MLAs is likely to be a hurried floor test to be held on Thursday, top sources in Dinakaran faction said they are approaching the court challenging the decision that they claim is an attempt to “manipulate the minority status into a majority.”

A day after AIADMK’s Sasikala faction leader and her nephew TTV Dinakaran raised serious charges against Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami alleging direct links of him and his family with mining baron Sekhar Reddy, Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal on Monday disqualified 18 AIADMK MLAs supporting Dinakaran.
While the immediate impact of the disqualification of MLAs is likely to be a hurried floor test to be held on Thursday, top sources in Dinakaran faction said they are approaching the court challenging the decision that they claim is an attempt to “manipulate the minority status into a majority.”