Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay has convened a meeting of TVK MLAs in Chennai on Wednesday amid concerns over the conduct of some legislators.
“Our leader is expected to issue a stern warning to the MLAs, with the conduct of a section of them bringing disrepute to the party,” said a senior leader. Sources said the woman bureaucrat raised the matter with the chief minister’s office, following which the MLA was warned by the party headquarters. The party has also been embarrassed by developments involving Kallakurichi MLA C Arul Vignesh, who reportedly made inappropriate remarks about the district collector around two months ago. Assembly deputy speaker and Thuraiyur MLA M Ravishankar has come under criticism after a video purportedly showing him assaulting Karthik Kumar, who had approached him with a complaint, went viral. Vijay’s meeting comes close on the heels of the party’s bypoll victories in Dharapuram and Madurantakam. The party is also gearing up to replicate those gains in five more bypoll seats, including Perundurai, Ambasamudram, Viralimalai, Karur and Trichy East.
The party on Monday referred the matter to its disciplinary action committee, headed by minister and general secretary N Anand.