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The Palaniswami-Dinakaran duo is all set to churn the state bureaucracy, which they feel is “infested” with O Panneerselvam (OPS) loyalists. Dinakaran has prepared a list of officials for key positions, sources said. They are expected to help him execute his agenda of strengthening his position within the party as well as in the administration. The first casualty in the new government could be Tamil Nadu intelligence chief S Davidson Devasirvatham, appointed by OPS only on Monday. Some heads might roll for registering cases of abduction, illegal confinement and wrongful restraint against chief minister Palaniswami and Sasikala based on a complaint from AIADMK Madurai south MLA S S Saravanan.
The role of police at the Kuvathur resort, the MLAs’ abode, may come in for close scrutiny. Police will face the heat for conducting inquiries at Kuvathur in the last few days. A senior ranking official, based on instruction from his superiors, had removed CCTV footage of the ‘activities’ at the resort and submitted it to the police brass. The Sasikala camp was also incensed with the deployment of the Tamil Nadu Commando Force, a quick reaction team (QRT) of the Tamil Nadu police deployed only for anti-terror operations, as the first line of defence at Kuvathur to show the full might of the state police. The commando force was not deployed even during the recent violence in Chennai as a fallout of the jallikattu protests.
