Chennai, May 25 -- Even as the strength of the AIADMK rebels has started dwindling with three of them resigning as legislators and embracing the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) of Chief Minister Vijay, and five more returning to the parent fold on Monday, party general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) holds the cards on condoning the breakaway faction as the 15-day deadline for that closes in.
In the trust vote on May 13 for the Vijay government, 25 of the 47 AIADMK legislators, led by former Ministers C.Ve.Shanmugam, S.P.Velumani and C.Vijayabhaskar, voted in favour, resulting in a split in the party. The next day, the petition seeking their disqualification was filed before Speaker JCD Prabhakar, for voting in violation of th...