Palaniswami will meet same fate of Bihar CM, says Stalin
Madurai (PTI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday claimed that AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami would meet the same fate as Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, at the hands of the BJP.
Only till 2026 TN Assembly polls, Palaniswami will be AIADMK chief, and later the BJP would "ease him out of office," Stalin alleged and slammed Palaniswami as an epitome of "betrayal".
"The BJP will dislodge Palaniswami from the top AIADMK post of general secretary, and bring a leader of its choice to that position," he said after welcoming scores of O Panneerselvam's supporters into the DMK in a rally organised in Madurai.
The expelled AIADMK leader had joined the DMK along with his former MP son O Ravindranath, in the presence of Stalin on February 27 in Chennai.
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Man dies as fishing boat capsizes off Kochi
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Kochi (PTI): A man died and five others were rescued after a fishing boat capsized off Puthuvypeen here on Saturday, coastal police said.
According to police, the fishing boat St Xavier capsized near Puthuvypeen soon after it set out at around 5 am.
A rescue operation was immediately launched and all the crew members were pulled out of the water by fishermen in another boat, they said.
However, one of the fishermen, identified as Renjan (62) of Neerkunnam in Alappuzha district, sustained injuries and was shifted to a hospital where he later died, police added.
Police said the reason for the mishap could not be immediately ascertained.
An attempt to recover the boat will be launched soon, they said.
Statements of the rescued fishermen are being recorded as part of the investigation.
A case of unnatural death has been registered at the Fort Kochi Coastal Police Station.
The body of the deceased was handed over to relatives after the postmortem.
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