‘Hopeful of Guv’s good decision on demand for CM’s ouster’
Bolstered by two more MLAs joining him, sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran on Saturday said his camp was confident that governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao will take a “good decision” on representation given by his legislators seeking chief minister K Palaniswami’s ouster.
Asserting that his aim was to safeguard the party, he said the group (of his loyalist MLAs) was hopeful that Rao will “take a good decision.”
Describing the governor as a “legal expert”, Dinakaran said in Chennai that “justice”, for which his loyalists had taken up cudgels against the incumbent dispensation led by Palaniswami, “will win”.
“I will work with them (his loyalist MLAs),” the sidelined AIADMK leader said.
On Speaker P Dhanapal’s notice to his loyalists, Dinakaran, whose support from the ruling MLAs has gone up to 21, said, “We are bound only by truth and God and this is a war between sacrifice and betrayal. None except God can intimidate us.”
He said it would not be true if there are any claims that his loyalist MLAs have gone to Puducherry out of fear.
“Ninenteen of them have gone there with a passion of sacrifice, to safeguard the party and the whole India is watching the situation,” Dinakaran said.
“They are in Puducherry with the confidence that Governor Rao will expeditiously fulfill their representation,” he said, adding money cannot buy his loyalists.
“To bring a realisation that the party can be led only by the general secretary, they are there (Puducherry) and not due to fear of somebody,” Dinakaran said.
AIADMK’s interim general secretary V K Sasikala is serving a prison term at a Bengaluru prison following her conviction in a disproportionate assets case.
Adorning sacred beads worn by devotees who visit the holy shrine of Sabarimala in Kerala, Dinakaran said he will visit the temple.