{"id":80825,"date":"2017-08-12T11:27:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T11:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=80825"},"modified":"2023-09-14T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:51:27","slug":"in-delhi-edappadi-palaniswami-meets-modi-ops-team-submits-affidavit-to-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=80825","title":{"rendered":"In Delhi, Edappadi Palaniswami meets Modi; OPS team submits affidavit to EC."},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Johnson Cherian.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amid talk of a possible merger of the two factions of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, Mr. Palaniswami, who is also the headquarters secretary of the AIADMK (Amma), told reporters that he discussed only the issue of exempting Tamil Nadu from the purview of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET). Saying that \u201cNo talks have been held between the two sides,\u201d Mr. Palaniswami, however, hoped that the two factions would reunite.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Even as the Chief Minister was meeting Mr. Modi, the AIADMK (Puratchi Thalaivi Amma) faction submitted an affidavit along with a copy of a resolution passed by the AIADMK (Amma) faction nullifying the appointment of T.T.V. Dhinakaran as deputy general secretary to the Election Commission to back its demands. The affidavit stated that the AIADMK (Amma) resolution on Thursday had, in effect, admitted its (AIADMK [Puratchi Thalaivi Amma]\u2019s) position against the appointment of V.K. Sasikala as general secretary of the party.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is the first time that a document helping the case of the Panneerselvam camp has been forthcoming from the other faction, pointing to \u201crather hectic attempts\u201d to forge a merger.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sources said Mr. Palaniswami returned to Chennai on Friday evening. Mr. Panneerselvam, who hasn\u2019t yet sought an appointment with the Prime Minister, will remain in Delhi for the weekend.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson Cherian.\u00a0 Amid talk of a possible merger of the two factions of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday. However, Mr. Palaniswami, who is also the headquarters secretary of the AIADMK (Amma), told reporters that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167577,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80825\/revisions\/167577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}