Doubt validity of floor test conducted in Tamil Nadu assembly: Panneerselvam

CHENNAI: Former Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam on Saturday said people will decide whether passage of the Edappadi K Palaniswami government’s confidence motion in the assembly was valid or not. He said, “Dharma will win.”Panneerselvam told mediapersons: “We had two demands: One, send the AIADMK legislators, who had been staying at resort in Koovathur, home for a week. Let them meet people and then vote. But that didn’t happen. Will people now welcome MLAs ? We also wanted a secret ballot. But speaker didn't agree,” he said.Panneerselvam said DMK legislators had been evicted before voting.He said, “People whom Amma (late chief minister J Jayalalithaaa) didn’t want are back in politics.”OPS said he and his supporters would meet the governor if there was need for it.Former school education minister K Pandiarajan, who is in the OPS camp, said: “If there had been a secret ballot, MLAs would have voted against Eddapadi Palaniswami . We may have lost the battle but the war has just begun.”