Tamil Nadu Today: Three AIADMK MLAs join TVK after resignation

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(from left) Maragatham Kumaravel; S. Jayakumar; P. Sathyabama | Photo Credit: The Hindu

Three AIADMK MLAs who were part of the S.P. Velumani faction resigned from their posts, following which Assembly Speaker J.C.D. Prabhakar accepted their resignation letters.

Minutes later, Maragatham Kumaravel, the MLA for Madurantakam constituency (Chengalpattu district), S. Jayakumar, the MLA for Perundurai constituency (Erode district), and P. Sathyabama, the MLA for Dharapuram constituency (Tiruppur district), met Public Works Department Minister Aadhav Arjuna at his chamber in the Secretariat and joined the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK).

Taking a jibe at this development, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami, in a statement, termed it as “vulgar politics” and “horse trading” introduced in Tamil Nadu by the ruling TVK. Meanwhile, DMK president M.K. Stalin, in his social media post, described it as “horse trading at horse speed.”

The special court for POCSO Act cases in Thoothukudi sentenced 38-year-old Dharma Muneeswaran of Sayalkudi, to death on two counts after convicting him in the sexual assault and murder case of a 17-year-old schoolgirl in the district two months ago.

The crime had occurred in March at Vedanatham village that falls under Kulathur police jurisdiction.

Residents, mostly brick kiln workers and their families, at Puthur village in Vellore district blocked the Cuddalore - Chittoor Highway against a local Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) functionary for reportedly demanding ₹1 lakh per month bribe from brick kiln operators to run the units without any political interference.

A 17-year-old boy, A. Gubendran, was stabbed to death in the early hours at the Madurai Corporation’s shopping complex in the Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple parking lot.

A scuffle with a person over buying bananas at his shop last month is said to have led to the murder.

A major fire accident occurred at a private oil godown in Manali. The personnel of Fire and Rescue Services have