Dhinakaran News
The Dinakaran-led party, which will contest elections in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, was formed after he and V.K. Sasikala were ousted from the AIADMK.
Dhinakaran later said the the HC's decision is not a setback for them.
The 18 AIADMK MLAs had been disqualified by Speaker P Dhanapal last year for expressing lack of confidence in the chief minister.
The MLAs were disqualified after they had called on state Governor expressing lack of confidence in the leadership of Palaniswami and seeking a change of guard.
Former AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran, who launched his own political party Amma Makkal Munetra Kazhagam, was detained by police on Tuesday after he tried to gherao the Tiruchirappalli International Airport in Tamil Nadu's Tiruchirappalli over the ongoing row on Cauvery Mangement Board (CMB).
Sidelined AIADMK leader T T V Dhinakaran today cited technical hurdles in forming a new political outfit and said there were no such difficulties in functioning as the AIADMK (Amma) if the court allowed them to use that name.
'Middleman' Sukesh Chandrashekhar was arrested for allegedly taking money from Dhinakaran to bribe ECI officials to get the AIADMK's 'two leaves' symbol for the Sasikala faction.
Money or star power alone cannot buy votes. Dhinakaran's efforts went largely unnoticed.
Stung by the bypoll defeat, the ruling AIADMK removed nine party supporters of Dhinakaran, who recently took oath as MLA from RK Nagar constituency.
The meeting lasted for about half an hour at the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru.
The nine members of the AIADMK had backed sidelined party deputy general secretary TTV Dhinakaran.
The panel directed Dhinakaran to submit within a week documents and evidence in his possession in respect of Jayalalithaa's hospitalisation and medical treatment till her demise.
The AIADMK leader said that legal action against magazine editor S Gurumurthy would be taken, if necessary, for his defamatory views.
Dhinakaran defeated his nearest rival E Madhusudhanan of the AIADMK by 40,707 votes in RK Nagar bypoll.
Dinakaran on Sunday won the RKNagar Assembly constituency, trouncing his nearest AIADMK rival EMadhusudhanan by a margin of 40,707 votes.
Contesting as an Independent candidate, Dinakaran got 89,013 votes as against Madhusudhanan's 48,306 votes.
The DMKs' N.Marudhu Ganesh came a poor third securing 24,681 votes.
Dinakaran, who contested as an Independent candidate for RJ Nagar bypoll, got 72,518 votes.
RK Nagar Assembly bypoll counting is on December 24.
The counting of votes for the RK Nagar Assembly bypoll will be taken up on December 24.
As many as 19 other AIADMK members had also submitted an application seeking nomination to contest the RK Nagar Assembly constituency.
The court is expected to hear Dhinakaran's petition against EC's ruling on 2 leaves poll symbol case on Friday.
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