Sasikala Pushpa’s Husband Arrested After Scuffle With AIADMK Cadre

Pushpa’s husband and her lawyers had clashed with the AIADMK workers on Wednesday outside the party office.

Expelled AIADMK MP Sasikala Pushpa. (Photo Courtesy: The News Minute)

A day after expelled AIADMK MP Sasikala Pushpa's husband Lingeswara Thilagan was attacked by party workers, he was arrested by Chennai Police on Thursday morning.

A clash broke outside party headquarters on Wednesday after Thilagan and Pushpa's lawyers tried to enter the office to file her nomination papers for the post of the party's general secretary.

According to the Election Commission's rule, the party had to appoint a new general secretary before 31 December.

A meeting had been intervened to discuss the successor of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa who passed away on 5 December.

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The meeting took a violent turn when four of Pushpa's lawyers and her husband got into a scuffle with the AIADMK cadres, who had stopped the former from entering the premises.

Party spokesperson told CNN-News18 that Pushpa is no longer a member of the AIADMK and thus has no right to be present during any meetings.

Speaking to the media, Pushpa earlier on Wednesday said that her husband had been missing ever since the attack and that it was a “human rights crisis.”

She even filed a complaint with police against the party cadres for assaulting her husband.

Pushpa had been expelled in July after getting into an altercation with DMK MP Tiruchi Siva.

After Amma's death, Pushpa filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court asking for a judicial probe into the matter as she suspected foul play by the newly-appointed General Secretary Sasikala Natarajan.

(With inputs from News18)