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.
MK Stalin has tested positive at a high time when Tamil Nadu has been witnessing a huge rise in daily Covid cases, triggering the possibilities of yet another wave.
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.
When July 11 was nearing, tensions were pervasive in the party and with a good audience to see his drama, EPS was planning to cement his base as strong as how it was for Jayalalithaa.
While OPS and his supporters have sieged the party's office, the senior leaders in the EPS faction have come down hard on OPS at the General Council meeting, which passed the resolutions to contain the powers of OPS.