When AIADMK witnessed parallel general council meetings 28 years ago

May 21, 1997. He played a daily international (ODI) match against his traditional rival Pakistan at the famous Ma Chidaram Cricket Stadium in Chennai, India, Chennai. On this scorching day, Pakistan’s opening player Saeed Anwar scored the highest 194 runs in ODI matches. It was another issue in which Pakistan won the match and called Anwar’s “man of the match .. However, Prime Minister M. Karunanidhi, who followed the match as a jacky enthusiast, chose to say to someone else “the man of the match”. This person declared S. Thirunavukkarasu (now known as Thirunavukkarasar and Congress), that day, Karunanidhi’s Bête Noire and later Aiadmk Jayalithaa Secretary General (Later, Jayalitha).

On the ground of former school education Minister Ka Sengottian, AIADMK leader Edappadi K. Palaniswami set a 10 -day deadline to start the process of making Dravidian Major members into an organization, and there was an interest between the periods of the political leaders and journalists between the periods of Mr. Thirunaviskarasar. At that time, Dravidian was outside the Major power.

On May 19, 1997, the rebel leader received the news that his nephew was dismissed from AIADMK on his way back to Tiruchi from Pududukottai, where his nephew would attend. He said Hindu Then he was shocked and surprised by the announcement ”. Even if Jayalithaa called on to invite him to the wedding on May 15, there was no ink. “I get it as a gift given in its own style on the occasion of the family wedding,” he said. Only 1996 Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections held in April-May, the Parliament elections, in March, AIADMK and his party-MGR-ADMK-uninformed the third time to Dravid Major returned to the Major. The third and last inning in AIADMK lasted a little more than a year. Again, in August 1988 and July 1990, the party was fired by Supremo.

Unlike previous cases, this time, Mr. Thirunavukkarasar received more support than a series of leaders in AIADMK, which was in favor of Jayalithaa. A few months after the drubation of the party’s 1996 polls, many leaders, including SD Somasundaram, S. Muthusamy (now Minister of Housing), C. Aranganayayagam and S. Kannappan (now RS Rajakannapan and Forestry Minister), organized themselves as a rival AIADMK group. These leaders had begun Woo, Mr. Thirunavukkarasar, but he said that all of the reports were not good for him and his followers at the party. It was realized.

‘DMK had no role to play’

To a query Hindu On Monday, Mr. Thirunavukkarsar said, “DMK or Karunanidhi had no role in my rebellion. [Jayalalithaa’s] I’m going to leave the party, “he explained, Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) GK Moopanar’s close relationship with the founder of the close relationship with him, he added.

On May 30, 1997, the Treasurer of AIADMK Sedapatti R. Muthiah (who later joined the DMK) was accused of Moopanar and Karunanidhi for olmak being hand in hand while trying to divide AIADMK ”. Thirunavukkarasar. In order to verify this, Karunanidhi’s “man of the match” and the second Moopanar as the leader.

He followed the seven parliamentary members (Rajya Sabha), including VV Rajan Chellappa (now AIADMK MLA), and was also known as a separate group in the upper house. On May 23, the rebel leader announced that on June 18, the party’s general council would ‘gather’, and a few days later, Jayalithaa’s party’s general council again decided to upgrade to June 4th. Both sides claimed that there was majority support in the council. Finally, two “General Councils gelir came together in Chennai on June 3. “While organizing the Jayalithaa General Council in Vijaya Sesha Mahal Marriage Hall in Vadapalani, I kept mine in the Raghavendra Marriage Hall in Kodambakkam,” he remembered.

Asi AIADMK’s ‘Secretary General’ Thirunavukkarasar shows the sign of victory | Photo Loan: Hindu Archives

At the meeting held by Jayalithaa, he was approved by the approved of the belief in the leadership of the deportation of Mr. Thirunavukkarasar. In the other, the rebellious leader was elected as the Secretary General of the Party. However, a few weeks later, the Supreme Court of Madras decided that the General Council meeting, which was convened by Mr. Thirunavukkarasar, was illegal and invalid because he was not authorized to call such a meeting. This decision was made in a lawsuit filed by Jayalithaa.

Over time, some leaders in the opponent camp began to return to the “main organization görün managed by the former Prime Minister. Im I knew I hadn’t matched with Jayalithaa since the beginning. But the decision to oppose him was forced to me.

After many of his colleagues abandoned solids, he revived the MGR-ADMK and worked until February 2002 united the party with BJP. He attended the congress in November 2009. “At that time, Jayalithaa had conveyed his invitation to return to AIADMK through his two ambassadors.

Published – 10 September 2025 07:00