Tamil Nadu: AIADMK Has Further Splitted After 03 MLA’s Tendering Their Resignation; Likely To Join TVK.

Chennai; May 2026: After an assembly election loss a couple of days ago, the problems for the AIADMK seem to be rising as 03 party MLAs – Maragatham Kumaravel, Sathyabama, and Jayakumar, today (Monday – 25th May 2026) has tendered their resignation to Assembly speaker JCD Prabakaran at the Tamil Nadu Secretariat. All 03 MLAs also met Tamil Nadu Minister and TVK leader Aadhav Arjuna to join hands with the party.

Assembly Speaker Prabakaran will announce whether he has accepted their resignation, as he reviews their resignation letters. After the Speaker accepts their resignation, bye-elections will be held for these Madurantakam, Dharapuram and Perundurai constituencies, along with Trichy East, from where Chief Minister Vijay had tendered his resignation after winning two seats.

Maragatham Kumaravel, Sathyabama, and Jayakumar had won Madurantakam, Dharapuram and Perundurai seats, respectively. AIADMK had won 47 seats in the elections; these resignations will bring down their tally to 44 seats.

The party has been facing an internal rift since the Assembly elections. Vijay’s floor test turned into an AIADMK versus AIADMK showdown after 25 of the party MLAs led by CV Shanmugam voted for the TVK. Although the CM Vijay-led TVK had the support of 119 MLAs, it has passed the floor test with 144 votes.

While AIADMK General Secretary Edapaddi K Palaniswami has accused Shanmugam of defying the party’s whip, in turn, Shanmugam questioned the authority of the whip appointed by EPS. DMK had accused the TVK of “horse trading”.

On May 18th (Monday), Senior AIADMK leader S Semmalai had resigned from the party and submitted his resignation letter to AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, citing dissatisfaction over

recent developments within the party and expressing anguish over its current state. In his resignation letter, Semmalai have said the series of events in the party following the elections had caused him “immense mental anguish” and claimed that lakhs of party workers shared similar concerns.

Team Maverick.