DMK suspends Selvam, issues showcause notice

The DMK also sent him a show cause notice asking why he should not be removed from the party. It has also relieved Selvam from the posts of the high-level executive committee member and headquarters office secretary.

DMK high command has initiated disciplinary action against the Thousand Lights MLA a day after he visited BJP national president J P Nadda in Delhi and issued an ultimatum to its president M K Stalin to snap ties with the Congress and conduct organisational polls.

In a statement issued announcing his suspension from the party, the DMK high command also said that a showcause notice has been sent to Selvam asking why he should not be removed from the party. The notice is perceived as a mere formality before the likely expulsion of Selvam who had dared Stalin to act against him when he briefed media persons outside the BJP chief’s residence on Tuesday.

Earlier on Wednesday, Selvam was given a rousing reception by BJP workers, who presented him with saffron shawls at the airport, drove straight to BJP office ‘Kamalalayam’, where he participated in the special puja to mark the foundation stone laying for Ram temple in Ayodhya by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Later, talking to reporters, he said he came to know that he was suspended from the DMK. ‘’Even if they expel me from the primary membership of the DMK, I am not bothered’’.

Taking potshots at the DMK and in a veiled attack on DMK Youth Wing leader and Party President M K Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi, he said hereditary politics has now become family politics in DMK.

Stating that he aspired for the post of DMK Chennai West district secretary held by deceased legislator J Anbazhagan, but was denied, the MLA appealed to all those above 55 years of age in the DMK to quit the party and join the BJP as they would also face the same fate as he faced.