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NEW DELHI: AIADMK person CV Shanmugam connected Wednesday lashed retired astatine enactment main Edappadi K Palaniswami aft he, on with SP Velumani, C Vijayabaskar and respective different leaders was removed from cardinal enactment posts amid the deepening rebellion wrong the AIADMK.Speaking to reporters, Shanmugam alleged that the enactment has suffered continuous electoral setbacks ever since EPS assumed enactment aft the decease of erstwhile Tamil Nadu main curate J Jayalalithaa.Referring to Palaniswami's effect to disapproval implicit repeated predetermination defeats, Shanmugam said, "Today, erstwhile the General Secretary (EPS) is questioned astir wherefore we lost, helium responds by asking, 'Didn’t the AIADMK suffer successful 1996? Didn’t we suffer successful 2006 arsenic well?' Yes, we did lose.
But Puratchi Thalaivi Amma had the capableness to bring the enactment backmost to powerfulness again."
Praising Jayalalithaa’s leadership, helium said, "After each defeat, Amma would state that she would reconstruct MGR’s regularisation erstwhile more, and she succeeded successful bringing the enactment backmost to bureau for a 2nd term. It was Amma who delivered a monolithic triumph successful the 1998 Parliamentary elections. There was neither arrogance calved retired of triumph nor a inclination to fell distant aft defeat."
Shanmugam further alleged that the AIADMK’s electoral presumption had worsened nether EPS's leadership."More specifically, aft General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami assumed responsibility, not lone person the defeats continued, but we should astatine slightest person been expanding our fig of seats. Instead, with each election, our setbacks person go much severe, and we person been steadily declining," helium said.
Calling for an interior reappraisal of the party’s performance, helium added, "The decision faced by the AIADMK successful the precocious concluded Assembly elections indispensable beryllium discussed. We request to deliberate and analyse the reasons down these continuous defeats. Particularly aft Amma’s demise successful 2016, we person been consistently facing defeats successful Parliamentary elections, Assembly elections, by-elections, oregon section assemblage elections.
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The remarks came hours aft Palaniswami removed 25 rebel leaders and MLAs from enactment posts aft they allegedly defied the enactment enactment and supported the TVK authorities during the assurance question successful the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
