AIADMK leader Dinakaran to appear before Delhi police today
The EC had kept the AIADMK symbol, two leaves, frozen, denying it either of the warring factions which have been at daggers drawn after the death of J Jayalalithaa.
In midnight summons served this week, the crime branch of Delhi Police, investigating the case, had asked Dinakaran, the nephew of jailed AIADMK chief Sasikala, to appear at their office on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the tough stand taken by the EC in regard to the AIADMK symbol and the serious charge against Dinakaran, which is being viewed as a slur on the entire party, has prompted the rival camps to scurry for reconciliation and merger to protect their future, but gets stuck up in the row over who will get the upper hand.
Both the camps have put forth their conditions as pre-requisites for a merger.
The rival groups are headed by Chief Minister E Palaniswami, a handpicked man of Sasikala on the one side and former Chief Minister O Paneerselvam on the other.
The Panneerselvam camp has set formal removal of Sasikala and Dinakaran as conditions for merger talks, while the OPS camp has also sought a CBI probe into the circumstances leading to J Jayalalithaa's death on December 5 last year.
Panneerselvam had filled-in for Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister thrice in the past, twice when she had to go to jail in corruption cases and once when she was on her death bed.
He had claimed he was coerced to step down by Sasikala after Jayalalithaa's death.
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