Sasikala on Friday sacked party Presidium Chairman E. Madusudanan from primary membership of the party, a day after he switched over to the rebel camp led by Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam. Sengottaiyan was relieved as the party's organisation secretary, a post to which he was appointed last week. Sasikala urged the party workers not to have any truck with Madusudanan and said they should extend their cooperation to Sengottaiyan. On Thursday, Madusudanan had extended his support to Panneerselvam, saying “he wanted to “safeguard” the party. Sasikala had removed Panneerselvam from the treasurer’s post immediately after his revolt, but he has maintained that being a temporary General Secretary, she does not have the powers to appoint or remove party functionaries.

Source: The Telegraph February 10, 2017 10:26 UTC