![]() Three former MLAs – Jayanthi Padmanabhan, Mariappan Kennedy, and P Palaniappan – who are among the 18 persons disqualified as legislators in 2017 for siding with Dhinakaran have resigned from AMMK and joined DMK in the past few weeks.Īlready, two leaders from the lot, V Senthil Balaji, and Thanga Tamilselvan had joined the DMK with the former now the Electricity Minister of Tamil Nadu. The 57-year-old has gone into a shell after the election defeat – he lost from Kovilpatti in Southern Tamil Nadu – and his studied silence is leading to trusted lieutenants deserting him and joining arch-rival DMK. Mr Dhinakaran was the deputy general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and was expelled from the party in August 2017 along with Jayalalithaa's confidante VK Sasikala.At the height of his rebellion against the current AIADMK leadership, T T V Dhinakaran was touted as the “future” of the party for his charisma helped him succeed late J Jayalalithaa as the MLA of R K Nagar Assembly constituency here.Īfter successive election defeats – his Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) came as a cropper in the 2019 Lok Sabha and 2021 Assembly polls – Dhinakaran is now a lonely man. Mr Dhinakaran's close aide Mallikarjuna was also arrested for allegedly facilitating a Rs 50-crore deal between him and Sukesh Chandrashekar. The Election Commission had frozen the AIADMK's symbol after the two factions - one led by Mr Dhinakaran's aunt VK Sasikala and the other by former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam - staked claim to it. The bypoll was necessitated by the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who represented the Assembly seat. Mr Dhinakaran, who has been charged by the police, was arrested by the Delhi Police after four days of questioning for allegedly attempting to bribe EC officials for the party symbol. Sukesh Chandrashekar was arrested in April 2017 from a five-star hotel by the Delhi Police for allegedly taking money from TTV Dhinakaran to bribe Election Commission officials to get the AIADMK's 'two leaves' symbol for the VK Sasikala faction in a by-election to the RK Nagar Assembly seat in Tamil Nadu. Officials had said that they recorded the statement of Sukesh Chandrashekhar in this case early this month and now want to question Mr Dhinakaran and confront him with Sukesh Chandrashekhar to take the probe forward. ![]() ![]() The Enforcement Directorate case under the criminal provisions of the PMLA is based on the primary FIR filed against the accused by the Delhi Police Crime Branch in 2017.īoth Mr Dhinakaran and Sukesh Chandrashekhar were arrested by the Crime Branch then. Mr Chandrashekhar was also grilled by the agency in the case over the last week. While exiting the Enforcement Directorate office late at night on April 12, Dhinakaran told reporters that he cooperated with the agency and replied to their questions in the Sukesh Chandrashekhar case. ![]() ![]() The agency's notice and investigation against the 58-year-old Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) leader came after it recently arrested jailed 'conman' and another accused in this case, Sukesh Chandrashekhar. The agency issued fresh summons to him last week. ![]()
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