Chennai, July 23 -- The opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on Wednesday stepped up pressure against former party legislators who switched allegiance to the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), urging Assembly Speaker J C D Prabhakar to initiate action against them under the Anti-Defection Law.

After meeting the Speaker at the Secretariat, AIADMK whip Agri S S Krishnamurthy said the party had submitted additional clarifications sought by the Speaker on an earlier complaint.

"On behalf of our party leader Edappadiyar (Edappadi K Palaniswami), we submitted a complaint to the Speaker and insisted that action should be taken against the former MLAs based on our complaint," Krishnamurthy said.

He said the Speaker ...