Sasikala Pushpa blamed for AIADMK ruckus ahead of General Council meeting

CHENNAI: Amid a ' Sasikala for General Secretary' chorus in AIADMK, ruckus was witnessed outside the party headquarters here on Wednesday where a man sustained injuries and was rescued by the police personnel deployed at the scene even as filmstar Anandraj resigned from the party.

Senior party leader and filmstar Anandraj quit the party in an apparent fallout with the close aide of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

Anandaraj said he had no personal enmity with anyone in AIADMK but regretted the 'misuse' of Jayalalithaa's name by some in the party and the government.

On the violence outside the AIADMK headquarters, the party spokesperson C R Saraswathy blamed expelled M P Sasikala Pushpa for being behind the incident in which a man, believed to be the latter's lawyer, was “thrashed” by a group of alleged AIADMK supporters, which left him bleeding.

AIADMK sources said its workers started gathering at the party headquarters after there was some information that Sasikala Pushpa, earlier expelled by Jayalalithaa for anti-party activities, could come there ahead of of Friday’s General Council possibly to seek an invitation to attend it.