Sasikala Natarajan
Loyalty pays?Twitter/AIADMK Official

These are the three main headlines on the Tamil Nadu AIADMK crisis today:

  • Sasikala to meet AIADMK MLA at Koovathur resort
  • TN school education minister K 'Ma Foi' Pandiarajan joins OPS camp
  • Sasikala seeks appointment with Governor to prove majority

Read all live updates and breaking news from Tamil Nadu here on International Business Times, India:

7.33 pm IST: AIADMK MP V Sathyabama meets Panneerselvam, offers support.

6.32 pm IST: It will be proper if she takes responsibility, will help in achieving party's goal: Tamil Nadu MLA Rengasamy after meeting Sasikala

6.17 pm IST: Panneerselvam is the only person who can lead the party, no one else can, including Sasikala: AIADMK leader C Ponnaiyan

5.29 pm IST: Senior AIADMK leader C Ponnaiyan meets Pannerselvam, extends support to him.

5.22 pm IST: Sasikala leaves Golden Bay Resorts after holding meeting with MLAs.

5.16 pm IST: Sasikala surrounded by party MLAs and supporters at Golden Bay Resorts in Kuvathur. Slogans raised in her support.

5.12 pm IST: 

5.09 pm IST: Security tightened at Tamil Nadu's Raj Bhavan in Chennai. 

5.07 pm IST: 

4.46 pm IST: Drama is coming to a close soon. I'm at least in touch with 20 of them (MLAs). So, I don't think phones are switched off: K Pandiarajan

4.26 pm IST: I'm not afraid of anything, we will win. Those who left us are traitors: Sasikala

4.17 pm IST: Sasikala holds meeting with MLAs at Golden Bay Resorts in Kuvathur.

3.58 pm IST: Sasikala reaches Golden Bay Resorts in Kuvathur where MLAs are lodged.

3.29 pm IST: 

3.12 pm IST: Sasikala going to meet party MLAs staying at a resort in Kuvathur. While the OPS camp says that MLAs are 'locked up' in the resort, the Sasikala camp claims they are staying there on their own will.

2.59 pm IST: In my political career of 20 years, I am yet to see the kind of support which O Panneerselvam is receiving: K Pandiarajan

2.46 pm IST: 

2.38 pm IST: We urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to safeguard Tamil Nadu from forces which are all out against us, and can take law and order into their hands: AIADMK MP V Maithreyan

2.26 pm IST: 

2.17 pm IST: Tamil Nadu school education minister K 'Ma Foi' Pandiarajan, Namakkal MP PR Sundaram and Krishnagiri MP Ashok Kumar have joined the Panneerselvam camp. Pandiarajan is the first cabinet minister to join the OPS camp.

1.50 pm IST: Amma has given me 1.5 crore party brothers and sisters. When they are with me,the sinister intentions of many will not harm me: VK Sasikala. Amma is confident that I'll look after AIADMK; Relentless work by Amma has made AIADMK 3rd largest party. Amma is with us now: VK Sasikala

1.25 pm IST: Amma's soul is leading us, truth will win: O Panneerselvam 

1.22 pm IST: I am confident all leaders who care about Tamil people will come and join us: O Panneerselvam 

1:11 pm IST: State Minister K Pandiarajan to meet O Panneerselvam and offer support 

1:05 pm IST: Sasikala Natarajan writes letter to TN Governor; seeks appointment to prove majority. In the letter, she has also questioned the delay in oath ceremony.

12:34 pm IST: AIADMK supporters reach Poes Garden

12:21 pm IST: Police and revenue officials began inquiries with AIADMK legislators lodged at a resort near Mahabalipuram, reported the Times of India. 

11:16 am IST: AIADMK MPs PR Sundaram and Ashok Kumar offer support to O Panneerselvam

8.45 am IST: Stones were pelted at mediapersons reportedly by AIADMK workers outside the resort where the party MLAs are lodged.

8.30 am IST: Senior advocate KTS Tulsi has supported Supreme Court decision of not to hear PIL on Sasikala. "I am sure this is a political action and the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court doesn't want to get into the political thicket. Not all disputes are judicially manageable," he noted. 

8:00 am IST: DMK writes to governor to bring stability to Tamil Nadu politics. He also pitched for a "fair floor test."