The Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P. Dhanapal, on Monday, disqualified from their posts 18 dissident AIADMK MLAs belonging to the T.T.V. Dhinakaran faction who had withdrawn support to Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami.
Announcing this, Assembly Secretary K. Boopathy said in an official release that since the Speaker has disqualified them under Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (Disqualification on Ground of Defection) Rules, 1986, the 18 AIADMK MLAs have lost their MLA posts.
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