Amid such developments, the prominent Thevar community in the state has written to OPS and VK Sasikala to recoup the control of the party. 

The party release by Palaniswami stated that Udhayakumar, representing the Tirumangalam Assembly constituency, was elected as deputy leader of the Opposition.

ADMK's newly elected interim General Secretary EPS has directed a mass expulsion where he removed over a dozen of party functionaries in a single shot.

In his official statement, EPS has said that all these functionaries were expelled on the grounds of bringing disrepute to the party and for violating the party rules.

The caught-on-the-tape episode has startled the EPS camp and exhibited the drama that's going on esoterically in the camp. 

Besides battling with OPS to stamp his label as the party's interim General Secretary, EPS has a handful of challenges ahead from all the corners.

While both the leaders have been locking horns over who needs to head the party, VK Sasikala has turned heads by asserting that her only agenda is to unite the ADMK.

The ADMK head office had witnessed riots as the cadres of both camps clashed with each other and burnt the effigies of their rival leaders. 

She stated that this was not the ADMK the cadres wanted and added that the people who voted for ADMK aren't happy about what has happened today. 

While his elevation has inflamed the political turmoil within the party, it is pertinent to say that EPS is rising in the party in the fall of the party's late supremo J Jayalalithaa.