Edappadi K. Palaniswami said there was no room for reconciliation with V.K. Sasikala and O. Panneerselvam, either by accommodating them in the AIADMK or including them in the coalition led by the Dravidian major. He said he had repeatedly made this position clear and recalled Amit Shah saying he would not interfere in AIADMK internal affairs when ties between the AIADMK and BJP were revived. Palaniswami said more parties would join the coalition but did not give details, and he declined to respond to speculation about accommodating the AMMK led by T.T.V. Dhinakaran. He accused the DMK government of enacting a “drama of deception” over the Tamil Nadu Assured Pension Scheme and said it was similar to the Centre’s Unified Pension Scheme with differences in indexation and no 10-year pay commission-linked upward revision provision like the Old Pension Scheme.