How EPS beat OPS to win over AIADMK

Jaya Menon & Julie MariappanTNN
Mar 30, 2023 | 10:12 IST

After several legal battles, expulsions and desertions, Edappadi K Palaniswami becomes AIADMK general secretary. But can he regain the party’s lost glory?

On February 14, 2017, a nondescript beach resort in Koovathur village in Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu was suddenly in the limelight.

It was a little more than two months after J Jayalalithaa’s death (on December 5, 2016), and her aide VK Sasikala was all set to take over as the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary and chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
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