Palaniswamy: The Arrest of Dinakaran not effect the AIADMK

Chennai, April 26: The AIADMK Deputy General Secretary T.T.V. Dinakaran was arrested by the Delhi Police at midnight on Tuesday.

A former AIADMK parliamentarian sentenced that, the arrest of Dinakaran will not show any effect on the proposed unification talks between the two factions in the party.

The former parliamentarian K.C.Palaniswamy said that,"The law has done its duty. Dinakaran attacked democracy by trying to bribe the Election Commission officials. He was removed from the party by our leader former Chief Minister and party General Secretary J. Jayalalithaa."

While coming to details,On Tuesday night, the Delhi Police have arrested Dinakaran over the charge of trying to bribe the poll officials through middleman Sukesh Chandrasekar who was arrested some days back.

According to sources,The AIADMK party split into two soon after the death of Jayalalithaa in December 2016.One faction is led by General Secretary V.K. Sasikala and the other by former Chief Minister O.Panneerselvam.

The Election Commission of Tamil Nadu had frozen the party's 'two leaves' symbol and the party name when the two groups claimed the same.

The poll body is hearing the case as to which faction the 'two leaves' symbol should be allotted to. Palaniswamy is one of the spokespersons of the Panneerselvam faction.