Big Political Scoop: CV Shanmugam Announces 30 AIADMK MLAs Will Support TVK, Only 17 With EPS Now

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]calls for EPS to resign. Uh post that viewers now we're getting a huge update.

[00:00:05]There was a clear split in the party.

[00:00:08]Many MLAs wanted a change in leadership and as the biggest updates coming in here. Republic is the first to break in and tell you that AIA DMK has split into two and they are planning these MLAs who have split are planning to support TVK during the floor test. I want to go straight across to my colleague who's joining us, Shardha. Sharda, this is huge coming in big Republic scoop, big split within the AIADMK Shivangi. 5 days back he first broke telling that the AADMK's a separate section of rebel factor wanted to support TV case Vijay while he was struggling to get the party's majority from the left parties. But however the IADMK party leadership party pal Swami made it clear that there will be no support given to the TVK. The announcement came after today's planning int politics later said they will not be helping Vijay in forming the government.

[00:01:12]Later the party leaders were disheartened and not agreeing to what era party said. the majority number of the party leaders the MLAs out of the 4730 wanted to support TVK and yesterday we saw 17 gave a letter to the speaker the proterm speaker of the TVK saying that it would be Eda party who will be the legislative assembly leader meanwhile 30 other ADMK leaders said it will be SPU money now today morning CV Shangham's factor which has been conducting talks for the last four days that saying that they want to be extending support to the TVK has now officially announced that The 30 MLAs of the ADMK would like to extend their support to TVK's Vijay and would like to be along with the TVK party. This is whether an alliance or not is something we'll know in the coming days because the TVK and the IDMK is yet to have official talks on the alliance. So in the coming days after the flow test, the TV and the AAMK will be indulging in talks. Meanwhile, SPU money, the second in command of the AIAMK, has made it very clear that they do not want the party to split into two, but make sure that the party leadership has changed, saying that the EDA party's uh leadership has not been satisfied with everyone and that there should be a public general meeting called in the AIDMK party and there should be a leader change to make sure that their political decisions are made according to the majority of the MLA's decision. Now this comes right after the 30 wants to support the TVK during the flow test >> right you know shard it looks like that the board of contention here before the split was that EPS refused to ally with Vijay and the TVK last week when those alliance talks were you were discussing that what other problems did the AIA DMK MLAs the ones who have split have with EPS and his leadership Well, today CV Shanukam officially stated that it was EPS who wanted to form the government taking support from the DMK. The unnatural alliance of the AIAMK. The DMK were actually in talks is what CV Shan Mugam has revealed. He's saying that the party general secretary Eda party wanted to become the chief minister with the help of the DMK which was not agreed by the majority of the MLA saying that the party's leader Jalitha would not have agreed for such an alliance that they stood for what MGR and Jala would do and saying that the ADMK leader Edari Palin Swami did not want to extend support to Vijay and not make him the chief minister and tried to make sure that he was the chief minister tried to reach to the governor telling that the DMK will come in support of the AIDMK if forming the government. We knew that there was backd dooror talks of the AIDMK and the DMK. Okay. Okay. I'm Sha Hold on Sha. Hold on for a second. I'm being joined by Absur Ready who's joining us on the phone line from the AIA DMK. Thank you for joining us here ready. What is really happening within the AIA DMK? Is this is this confirmed?

[00:04:10]Is AIAMK splitting into two? Do they plan to support the TVK? Is there a rebellion within AIAMK?

[00:04:21]Yes, upset are ready ups ready. Can you can you please uh can you hear us? Am I okay? We will go.

[00:04:35]We'll try to get some reactions. We try to get some reactions from the AIADMK viewers. This is a huge republic scoop that we have got possibility of 30 MLAs with money emerging emerging with the TVK. So there's a big big update coming in. It's a possibility that that these MLAs will be supporting uh Vijay during the floor test which will happen very soon in Tamil Nad. Okay, let's go straight across to my colleague Sharda.

[00:05:00]Shard will try to get some reactions from absur ready aidk. They're trying to of course go back but earlier the IDMK had absolutely dismissed any talk or any report of rebellion saying all is well all is well but that doesn't seem so okay we're being joined by Salame Dhi Dharan from the DMK thank you for joining us here Dhi Dhan leader from the DMK thank you for joining us what is it could you just tell us a little bit more about what exactly is happening within AIA DMK there's a huge split there. Uh the MLAs are not happy with the leadership of EPS. They wanted to ally with Vijay but EPS did not want that.

[00:05:45]Big updates coming in here. Uh your first reaction.

[00:05:55]Yes.

[00:05:59]Okay. We will we will try to get some more reactions. Okay. It looks like this is a very big scoop shard. Of course, we're waiting for some official reactions to come in from these leaders themselves. Remember, Republic has broken this news first. AIDSMK has extended will be extending support to TVK during the floor test. I want to go back to my colleague Shahadaha. Sharada remember earlier that the AIDMK had dismissed all these rumors. They call them rumors, baseless reports that there's a rebellion, that there's a split. But right now, we can tell our viewers and we are breaking it here that yes, the AIA DMK has split into two and 30 MLAs would be backing VU.

[00:06:45]>> Well, very true, Shivangi. 30 MLAs are now gave the prom speaker the letter telling that the ASP veani will the legislative past party assembly leader and C vijay Basco will be the party whip and the 30 MLA are ready to extend their support to TBK during the flow test.

[00:07:03]Meanwhile, 17 of them yesterday still continue with era party saying that he'll be the party leadership and the state legislative assembly. Now the 30 MLAs are giving a call for uh the party general a public general need to be conducted saying that era party should step down as the leader and a new leader should be selected. Also making it very clear that they are in no intention of splitting the party into two but are requesting for the party leadership to be changed to make better decisions as the majority of >> I want to I think we have Absel ready back with us. Absel ready can you can you hear us?

[00:07:38]>> Yes I can hear you. I can hear you loud and clear.

[00:07:40]>> Well, thank you. Thank you for joining us here. Now, this is a big Republic scoop. AIADMK has broken into two. This is what we are breaking. Uh there is a lot of MLAs not too happy with the leadership of EPS. Is this what is happening right now in the AIADMK?

[00:07:58]>> We have to understand the legalities and the technical um part of it. I think the the party the two leave symbol and the uh the general council resolution that the EPS sir is the general secretary remains. I don't think there's any bylaw that's been changed so that these people can defect and split the AIMK. When you talk about the AIDMK as a party it remains with Mr. Arai Kali Chami because he he is the custodian of the two leaf symbol the election commission and all the sup even the supreme court recognizes him as the general secretary of the party. So there's no change in that status. There are a few people who are disgruntled who are making a certain political move. It's up to them to take it forward and see how the legal challenges are going to be for the party. At the moment, if you ask me as official spokesperson of the IDMK, our general secretary and leader remains Mr. Arai Kal Shami.

[00:08:44]>> So are you saying that uh that there is no split within the AIA DMK to support Vijay during the floor test? See, I'm not going to I can't hoodwink what's happening right in front of our eyes all across cameras and you're beaming it live as well. There are a few MLAs who who are expressing their opinion and you know want to take the party in a certain direction but it hap we have to see how this pans out because technically and legally AIDMK still belongs to Ma Palami. None of the bylaws have been changed the general council resolutions haven't been passed. So we have to wait and watch how that pans out.

[00:09:19]>> All right. So okay. So, so we are getting to know that uh CV Shan Mugam has announced that SP Womani is being will be the legislative assembly leader C Vijay Bhaskar as a web. So would you confirm this or would you deny this?

[00:09:34]>> He's come out and he's made an announcement. Mr. Cish Shanukum has made the announcement. So there's no denying it 100 I mean it's it's happening. It's all across TV. It's the live visuals coming on TV on Tamil channels as well that he's announced it. That is the move that they are taking. But in if you talk about aidk splitting I'm being very technical in I mean in legalities purely in legal terms I don't think the aidk has gone into two bits because I think the general secretary remains mraparik pal shami the two leaf symbol remains with mraratikar pal shami uh the general council is the ultimate deciding body so if they have a general council meeting with about 2,500 members and if they sign off on whatever Mr. CV Shanoga is missing then that comes true.

[00:10:16]>> Okay. So you you're saying okay within within the aidk within the aidk of course now we see that uh that some MLAs do want to support Vijay now we understand that EPS was not too keen on supporting Vijay the TV when those alliance talks were happening could that be the reason that the new official announcements have come >> we don't know what Mr. Paln Shami's uh idea is on supporting TV or not and I don't think at this stage where Mr. Vijay has already formed his government.

[00:10:49]There's an overwhelming majority for him. Uh there's a lot of momentum pro TV. I don't think uh Vijay is at the mercy of any other party at the moment.

[00:11:00]He's formed the government and he's quite confident of running it. I think yesterday he made a visit to most leaders houses. So I think I don't think Vijay is at the mercy of any any decision making on AIDM case part anymore. I think he's quite strong on a strong footing as a chief minister of Tamil Nadu with an overwhelming majority. I don't think that discussion is relevant anymore about whether ARMK needs to support him or