While the current senior leaders of the party have strongly opposed her, she has been reaching out to the party cadres to know their minds and to earn their support after comeback.
While Palaniswami has been becoming the power-centric in the party, controversial posters in Tamil Nadu had blamed Palaniswami for the party's defeat in the recently-held state assembly polls.
Palaniswami said, "Sasikala is not a member of ADMK and doesn't exercise any links with the party. ADMK's deputy coordinator KP Munusamy and I had made it very clear."
It was Palaniswami's first meet since he became the Opposition Leader of the state assembly. However, his first meet had showered a strong light that the party is still exercising a political divide.
Sasikala believes that ADMK would face a drastic defeat in the Tamil Nadu assembly polls and she thinks that the party would come under her after the current leaders lose their strongholds in the election.
The development has sparked fresh controversy and several AMMK leaders had slammed the ADMK leaders for intentionally removing Sasikala's name from the voters' list.
Edappadi Palaniswami's advice to Panneerselvam had shown how the former is worried if Sasikala comes back to the party, which will cause an internal drift and will take over the leadership.
Thevar community is one of the major voter bases for ADMK and it's pivotal for the party to emerge strongly in some of the areas in Southern Tamil Nadu.
