Both Panneerselvam and Sasikala belong to the powerful Thevar community which has major inroads and political decision making powers in South Tamil Nadu. Thevars have been a mainstay for the AIADMK and the deposing of OPS by Edappadi K. Palaniswami and his associates from the party has not gone down well with the community. IANS had reported earlier that Sasikala and Panneerselvam were in the process of reaching an alignment at the behest of Thevar community.In a