The Election Commission has rejected the response filed by the AIADMK on V.K. Sasikala’s elevation as interim general secretary of the party for the reason that the reply submitted by Sasikala’s nephew T.T.V. Dinakaran, is not on the poll panel’s list of party office bearers.
“Hence the reply should either be submitted under your own signature or you may duly authorise somebody to do so in your behalf,” the EC notice said. The poll body said that a response should be submitted by Sasikala herself and it should come in by March 10.
The AIADMK has said that the reply was signed by Dinakaran, who was hurriedly reinducted into the party and nominated as the AIADMK deputy general secretary just before VK Sasikal the General Secretary left for a Karnataka prison to serve her remaining sentence in a disproportionate assets case.
The letter pointed out that the functioning of the party would have come to a standstill had a new general secretary not been appointed after the demise of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa.
By Premji
