Chennai, October 26: In the latest development on the disqualification of the 18 MLA's case, the rebels have decided to move Supreme Court against Madras High Court verdict. On Thursday, the High Court upheld their disqualification. The verdict came after four months post a split verdict on the issue by a division bench had maintained the status quo in the Tamil Nadu Assembly. Madras HC Upholds Disqualification of 18 Tamil Nadu MLAs; AIADMK Celebrates.

According to an IANS report, Senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said it would be proper to hold assembly elections in Tamil Nadu instead of bypolls for 20 assembly seats.

On Thursday, TTV Dinakaran commenting on the High Court verdict said," There is nothing called setback in politics. This is an experience. We hoped that the verdict will be in our favour. We will discuss with the rest of the MLAs, see, read and then decide the future course of action. This verdict will only bring our party workers, MLAs together."

The disqualified MLAs are Thangatamilselvan, R Murugan, Mariappan Kennedy, K Kathirkamu, C Jayanthi Padmanabhan, P Palaniappan, V Senthil Balaji, S Muthiah, P Vetrivel, NG Parthiban, M Kothandapani, TA Elumalai, M Rengasamy, R Thangadurai, R Balasubramani, SG Subramanian, R Sundarraj and K Uma Maheswari. One of the MLAs STK Jakkaiyan had later switched camps to support Palaniswami. The current strength of the Tamil Nadu Assembly is 216. While AIADMK has 116 MLAs, including the Speaker, the Opposition has 98 MLAs.

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