The Madras High Court on Friday (August 8, 2025) decided to hold talks with Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder S. Ramadoss and his son Anbumani Ramadoss to explore the possibility of establishing a truce between them. Justice N. Anand Venkatesh expressed his willingness to talk to them in his chambers at 5:30 pm.
The judge requested the counsel representing both leaders to make sure they were present in his chambers by Friday evening so that he could have a word with them in private and attempt to mediate the political dispute that had arisen between the father and son in recent days.
Justice N. Anand Venkatesh | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The judge said, no one else, not even the advocates, must be present during the meeting between him and the two leaders. He made the request when a writ petition filed in the name of Pattali Makkal Katchi, represented by its general secretary Murali Sankar, was listed for hearing before him.
The petitioner party had sought to restrain the convening of an “illegal” general body meeting called for by Mr. Anbumani at Mamallapuram on August 9, 2025. It claimed that he was no longer the president of the party after his relegation to the post of executive president. Filing an affidavit on behalf of the petitioner party, Mr. Sankar said, the three-year tenure of Mr. Anbumani as president of the party had come to an end on May 28, 2025, and after that, his father, the founder of the party, had become president.
