CHENNAI: Even while promising to keep away from AIADMK (Amma), its deputy general secretary T.T.V. Dhinakaran on Wednesday refused to resign from his post saying he would seek the advice of party general secretary V.K. Sasikala who had nominated him. A day after minister D. Jayakumar said senior ministers had decided to keep away Dhinakaran's family from party activities, TTV spoke to the media here at his residence. “I heard that ministers had taken a decision to keep me away from party. If they had called me for the meeting, I would have gone. I don’t know why they took such a decision.”
He said, “I don’t want to fight with my own partymen, who are like my brothers. I don’t want to show my strength and the party weak.” He also pointed out that ministers K.A. Sengottaiyan and Dindigul C. Seenivasan who had met him did not say anything. To a query if he would resign from the deputy general secretary post, he said “The post was given to me by the general secretary. I will discuss the issue with her.” When asked if he is planning to escape abroad, he said “My passport is with the court for the last 14 years. How can I go abroad? My Singapore citizenship had lapsed,” he said.
