MLAs, including Senthil Balaji, met Palaniswami at the Secretariat.
Later in the evening, Palaniswami convened a meeting in which Ministers including D Jayakumar, district secretaries and other party functionaries participated.
An AIADMK Amma party release said the meeting chaired by Palaniswami at party headquarters here deliberated on grand celebrations of the centenary of party founder and late Chief Minister M G Ramachandran.
Emerging out of the meeting, Jayakumar told reporters that the "review meet deliberated on celebration of MGR's centenary in a grand and not seen before manner across Tamil Nadu."
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Dhinakaran, who is now reportedly in Bengaluru, had recently said that jailed leader V K Sasikala had given 60 days time so that rival factions could merge.
He had said that if the merger did not fructify, she had briefed him on what needs to be done.
Though Panneerselvam recently poured cold water on the merger proposal by disbanding a committee formed for the purpose saying people were not in favour of it, Palaniswami camp had asked him to reconsider it.
The MLA, however, has later clarified that it was him in the video footage aired by the TV channel, but the voice was not his.
Opposition DMK had tried to raise the issue in the ongoing assembly session in the past two days but was denied permission by the Speaker.