The party which tasted only electoral success during the heydays of MGR, and Jayalalithaa has lost its pre-eminent position and going downhill in the Coimbatore district said K. Selvaraj, District Secretary (Urban) and a prominent leader of AIADMK of the OPS faction.
Coimbatore: Coimbatore district, which has widely been known as an impregnable AIADMK fortress has faced electoral defeats in the urban and rural local bodies polls lately, due to mismanagement of the party affairs.
The party which tasted only electoral success during the heydays of MGR, and Jayalalithaa has lost its pre-eminent position and going downhill in the Coimbatore district said K. Selvaraj, District Secretary (Urban) and a prominent leader of AIADMK of the OPS faction.
Addressing the media in the city after garlanding the statues of Anna, MGR and Jayalalitha, and after having participated in a meeting convened by ECI at Chennai, Selvaraj said that the election of EPS as interim General secretary of the party would not stand legal scrutiny. While mocking the EPS camp to the land without patta, Selvaraj said it is the OPS faction that has the patta.
Alleging that former AIADMK ministers have sided with the OPS only to safeguard their ill-gotten money, he said that the days are not far off when EPS would be driven out of AIADMK like Rajapakse in Sri Lanka.
Selvaraj further added that OPS would undertake a state-wide tour and visit every district after August 20.The days are not far off when OPS leads the party with “Thondars” and EPS will be left with only “Goondars” Selvaraj opined.
He also brushed aside a suggestion that a new party office has to be opened in the city. "There is no need to open a new party office for the OPS camp in Coimbatore, as the present one was given during MGR’s times by Varadharaj of PSG Group. We would have control of all properties of AIADMK all over the state’" Selvaraj said.
While alleging former minister D. Jayakumar has amassed wealth through corrupt practices, he said that Jayakumar may have to return all the Rs.60 crores he has earned by corruptive means during his tenure as fisheries minister in the EPS cabinet.
While noting that the BJP is only an alliance partner and there is no need to heed the advice of its leaders, Selvaraj said that the two parties are on friendly terms which don't mean one has to heed to the advice of the other.