Chennai, The Opposition DMK on Thursday dismissed
its suspended MLA Ku Ka Selvam from the primary membership of
the party for acting in a manner that brought disrepute to the party
and for violating the party discipline.DMK President M K Stalin, in a statement here said, Selvam was
permanently dismissed from the party as the reply given by the
MLA, who was elected from Thousand Lights constituency, to the
show cause notice was not acceptable.”Since Selvam’s reply to the show cause notice is not acceptable,
he is permanently dismissed and relieved from all party posts”,
Mr Stalin, who is also the leader of the Opposition in the State
Assembly, said.The dismissal of Selvam, a prominent face in the DMK, comes a day
after another DMK senior and former Deputy Speaker V P Duraisamy,
who joined the BJP two months back, said it would be a direct fight
between the BJP and the DMK in the next Assembly elections due in
April-May next year.Mr Duraisamy said till now it was said that it would be a fight between
the DMK and the ruling AIADMK in the elections.However, after Mr Selvam ‘joined’ the BJP (though the DMK MLA has
not officially announced it), it will now be a direct fight between the BJP
and the DMK.Now that he was officially dismissed from the DMK, decks were cleared
for his formal entry into the saffron party. Mr Selvam was on August five suspended from the DMK, which had also
issued a show cause notice as to why he should not expelled from the
primary membership, a day after he met senior BJP leaders Railway
Minister Piyush Goyal and BJP National President J P Nadda at his
residence in New Delhi.After meeting Mr Nadda, the DMK MLA also praised Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, while urging Mr Stalin to strongly condemn Tamil
YouTube channel Karuppar Kottam for denigrating Lord Muruga and
snap all ties with the Congress as its leader Rahul Gandhi was very
critical of Mr Modi’s good governance. Soon after his suspension, he attended a special puja at the BJP
headquarters in the city to mark the foundation stone laying
ceremony for construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya by Mr Modi. Though Selvam was suspended from the DMK, he was yet to join the saffron party formally, but he was given a rousing reception at the airport
by the BJP workers on his arrival from New Delhi after meeting Mr Goyal
and Mr J P Nadda. 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 had said
hereditary politics has now become family politics in DMK and 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 faced by him.Mr Selvam revolted after he was denied the post of DMK Chennai West district secretary held by deceased MLA J Anbazhagan, which was given
to youth wing member Chitrarasu apparently at the instance of Udhayanidhi.In his reply to the showcause notice, Selvam asked the party to withdraw his suspension, stating that the decision was taken without hearing his side,
and that it was not wrong to meet other political party leaders.He said the decision of suspension is one-sided and against the principles of natural justice. But his explanation was rejected and dismissed from the DMK.