Chennai, May 30 -- Days after four of its Rebel MLAs resigned their posts and joined the ruling Tamila Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) of Chief Minister Vijay, a battered and bruised AIADMK, which was yet to recover itself from successive poll losses, including the recent Assembly election debacle, on Saturday met Tamil Nadu Governor R V Arlekar and submitted a petition seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into alleged horse-trading indulged by the TVK leading to poaching of its four MLAs.

Following the resignation of the four MLAs, who were among the 25 dissidents voted in support of the Trust vote moved by the Government in the State Assembly, their four seats--Madurantakam, Dharapuram, Perundurai, and Ambasamudram--were notified ...