CHENNAI: AIADMK interim general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday removed former minister and organising secretary of the party C Ponnaiyan from his post and appointed him as an MGR Mandram secretary.
He also appointed two deputy general secretaries, a headquarters secretary, and 11 organising secretaries. In his first statement as interim general secretary, Palaniswami removed former ministers C Ponnaiyan and Natham R Viswanathan as organising secretaries.
Besides, he appointed former ministers KP Munusamy and Nathan R Viswanathan as deputy general secretaries, and former minister SP Velumani as the headquarters secretary.
The statement said that Palaniswami has appointed Sellur K Raju, CVe Shanmugam, P Dhanapal, KP Anbazhagan, R Kamaraj, OS Manian, Kadambur Raju, KT Rajendra Balaji, P Benjamin, VV Rajan Chellappa, and N Balaganga as organising secretaries.