

Simmering for long, the latest crisis in the AIADMK started bubbling last month after the E Palaniswami or EPS faction proposed that the party go back to a single-leader system to check its successive poll debacles since 2019. On Monday, the 71-year-old seemed to have finally hit a dead end, after being expelled from the AIADMK along with his aides. Till the end, O Panneerselvam or OPS kept fighting, in the party and outside it, from the High Court to the Supreme Court. POLITICAL PULSE | Seen to be in OPS corner, BJP denies setback, says very much in the game with a ‘united, strong’ ADMK However, the AIADMK emerging as “a cohesive, coherent and consolidated force… would help the BJP in the long run”, said a leader. Senior leaders, who have been closely involved with the BJP’s attempts to gain a footing in Tamil Nadu, say there may be a short-term setback due to the party’s association with OPS. Cota has also kidnapped three DEA agents to boot, and. Scott McCoy, a man in a blue funk because notorious drug dealer Ramon Cota (Billy Drago) arranged to have McCoys partner and his partners wife and baby brother killed. However, party leaders insist, a strong, united AIADMK that might emerge after the settlement of the leadership debate, is good news for the BJP. Available on iTunes, STARZ, Prime Video, Hulu. In the long power tussle between the two leaders, the BJP was seen to favour OPS. The tumultuous developments in the AIADMK, leading up to the crowning of E Palaniswami (EPS) as the most powerful man in the party and the ouster of O Panneerselvam or OPS, may appear, on the face of it, a setback for the BJP. He also announced the appointment of two senior leaders as deputy general secretaries of the party. Meanwhile, days after his elevation, top AIADMK leader K Palaniswami on Wednesday asserted that attempts by those ‘betraying’ the party to split it would not succeed and that the organisation would sustain on the strength of its supporters’ hard work. The water level is likely to increase by another two feet late in the night, as inflow is increasing fast throughout the day. The full reservoir level in the dam, also known as Stanley Reservoir, is at 120 feet.

According to officials, the functioning of Bravo, the primary taxiway (B-TWY), will ensure faster movement of flights, resulting in a significant increase of the existing primary runway handling capacity.Īs the catchment areas of Cauvery river in neighbouring Karnataka are receiving heavy rains, the water level in Mettur dam in Salem district breached the 105 feet mark on Wednesday. The Chennai International Airport is finally set to open its primary taxiway ‘Bravo’ on Thursday, four years after straightening work on it began in 2018.
