Chennai: A day after senior AIADMK chief and former Tamil Nadu minister Okay.A. Sengottaiyan’s 10-day deadline pitch to celebration common secretary Edappadi Okay. Palaniswami to reunite all breakaway leaders, the veteran MLA has been stripped of all celebration positions.

Sengottaiyan’s elimination as AIADMK’s Organising Secretary and Erode (Rural West) District Secretary with instant impact was introduced in an announcement Saturday. The choice got here hours after Palaniswami held an pressing assembly with the celebration’s senior leaders, together with former minister S.P. Velumani and others, in Dindigul Saturday morning.

On Friday, Sengottaiyan had met the press at Gobichettipalayam in Erode district, and urged the celebration management to readmit all of the supporters of AIADMK, with out names of breakaway leaders V.Okay. Sasikala, O. Panneerselvam, and T.T.V. Dhinakaran.

Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) chief Dhinakaran—nephew of Sasikala, an in depth aide of former chief minister J. Jayalalithaa—advised media individuals that Sengottaiyan’s elimination from celebration posts is not going to have any affect on him. “It solely exhibits how the celebration management is dealing with those that voice concern for the unity of the celebration,” he mentioned.

Sengottaiyan is among the seniormost leaders of AIADMK, or All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. Born in Kullampalayam in Erode district, he started his political journey within the early Seventies as an AIADMK panchayat secretary, and rose to turn into the celebration’s Erode district secretary by 1975 below the management of former chief minister M.G. Ramachandran.

He was first elected as MLA from Sathyamangalam in 1977, when AIADMK got here to energy for the primary time in Tamil Nadu. Since then, he has been re-elected from the Gobichettipalayam constituency eight occasions. As we speak, he’s the longest-serving MLA within the state, matched solely to his Opposition counterpart, DMK minister Duraimurugan.

He was the transport minister in 1991-1996, when Jayalalithaa was the chief minister. He held the agriculture portfolio in 2011, earlier than being moved to the IT division by Jayalalithaa the identical 12 months. In 2012, he was faraway from the ministerial place over allegations that he had an extramarital affair, and was sidelined till 2016. Later, he was named the college training minister in December 2016 below then CM Palaniswami.

Inside the celebration, in 2006, he was appointed the AIADMK headquarters secretary and served until 2012. He was additionally named the Presidium Chairman in 2017 for a quick interval when Sasikala was the interim common secretary of the celebration after Jayalalithaa’s demise.

(Edited by Mannat Chugh)

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