The Tamil Nadu ruling ADMK party has been getting pushed to encounter adverse challenges from inter and intra-party at a high time when the legislative election is fast-approaching in the state. As it would be the first state election for Edappadi Palaniswami as the Chief Minister, he has been mulling to fix the troubles and challenges that lie ahead of the party as he has been hoping to retain the reign in the state. 

While the party has been bracing up to address the external challenges and allegations leveled by the opposition parties during the campaign trials ahead of the elections, it has been finding it difficult to get prepared to address or meet the internal troubles posed before the party by the factions and the allied parties. 

While Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami had likely vanished possible tussles with Panneerselvam in winning the party's ticket to be the CM candidate and face of the party, he has been nearing to meet a huge challenge which could cause him larger trouble as by the time the ADMK would welcome the new year, it would welcome intra-party furors and fresh tussles as Jayalalithaa's closest aide VK Sasikala would be getting released from the prison by January 2021.

The release of the jailed leader would likely cause a political storm within the party. However, Edappadi Palaniswami has now been facing a similar storm even before the release of Sasikala and this one is from one of the allied parties - Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK). PMK, led by Dr. Ramadoss, has been in the ADMK alliance since the 2019 Lok Sabha Polls and the regional party has, if not an equal voter share like ADMK, a decent voter share in the state from its own community.

As the election nears, PMK has levied fresh trouble to the ADMK by demanding the ruling party to provide reservations for its own community. In its demand for the reservation, PMK has found a strong factor to cover up its voter base in the northern districts of the state during the assembly polls. PMK had strongly attacked the Chief Minister for not considering its long-standing demand for a 20% reservation for the Vanniyar community. 

By surfacing the ADMK with fresh trouble, PMK leader Ramadoss had recently said that the ruling government is not considering its demand for Vanniyar reservation and Ramadoss announced that his party would hold large-scale and strong protests against the ruling ADMK after the COVID-19 outbreak was brought under control. Ramadoss said that the protests would be for demanding the ruling ADMK government to meet its demand of 20% of the reservation. 

Voicing against the ADMK government, Ramadoss had made a comparison of the Edappadi Palaniswami's government to the Andhra Pradesh government led by Jagan Mohan Reddy. Ramadoss has, on Thursday, flayed the Chief Minister for not raising its voice on issues of people's welfare when his Andhra Pradesh counterpart has been fulfilling promises he made and implementing welfare schemes in his state. 

Earlier, Ramadoss had made a similar comparison and said that the Andhra Pradesh government has installed around 56 welfare associations for the betterment of the people belong to the backward classes and putting out the move of the Andhra Pradesh government on his social media handle, Ramadoss said that the Tamil Nadu government has nothing to say on the people's demands and the state ruling leaders tend to ignore the issues even those were raised before them. 

Through scathingly attacking the ADMK in which it has been a part of for over a year, Ramadoss had seemingly unfolded a twist in the alliance as his remarks had raised strong speculations across the state and among the leaders of both the parties on whether the PMK Chief has decided to quit the alliance of the ruling party ahead of the assembly polls and it would likely stir up the trouble for ADMK during the elections as in order to have a decent voter share in the northern districts, ADMK must need the support of PMK. 

Responding to his remarks, senior ADMK Minister Jayakumar, who is a mouthpiece of the Chief Minister, maintained that there were no problems with the PMK. Addressing the reporters on Thursday, Jayakumar said that there were no problems with the allied party and PMK has strongly been a part of the ADMK alliance which would continue during the assembly polls. By citing that ADMK's Jayalalithaa had established the principles of social justice and charted 69% reservation in Tamil Nadu, Jayakumar responded to Ramadoss that it was totally wrong to compare the state with Andhra Pradesh.