A day after sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran won the RK Nagar byelection with thumping margin, six district secretaries supporting Dinakaran have been sacked from AIADMK by EPS- OPS faction on Monday.
They are: S Vetrivel, Thanga Tamil Selvan, Rangaswamy, Muththaiya, V.P. Kalairajan and Sholinghur Parthiban sacked from the party positions in AIADMK. The decision was taken in a high-level committee meeting to discuss party's performance in RK Nagar byPoll.
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by top party office-bearers O Panneerselvam and K Palaniswami.
Dinakaran won the by-election for the Radhakrishnan Nagar (R.K.Nagar) constituency, defeating his nearest rival, E. Madhusudhanan of the AIADMK by a margin of over 40,000 votes. Dinakaran polled 72,518 votes and AIADMK's Madhusudhanan got 39,029 votes. DMK candidate N.Marudhu Ganesh has got 20,493 votes.
After registering a massive victory in Dinakaran, nephew of VK Sasikala, claimed that he is the "true successor" of Jayalalithaa.
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