Dismissal of Members in ADMK
Edappadi K. Palanisamy and O. Pannerselvam jointly made an announcement that two of their members have been dismissed from the party. The members being Murugesan, the Panchayat Secretary of Ilavelankal village and Savithri, branch secretary of Airavanpatti in Ottapidaram. The reason for their dismissal is reported as doing things in support of Ottapidaram DMK candidate M. C. Shanmugaiah.
It is important to note that Murugesan is the elder brother of M. C. Shanmugaiah and Savithri is the wife of Murugesan. It is speculated that this action is one among the list of other actions to be followed that was promised by Edappadi K. Palanisamy in order to reform the party. The actions are a result of MLAs being untrustworthy ahead of the upcoming by polls and many leaks about important decisions made leaked by inside sources.
This is reminiscent of Ms J. Jayalalitha's reign as the party's leader when she abruptly transferred and changed departments of officials and ministers to induce fear and to break any long time scandals or coups in planning.