AIADMK Party: AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala has been elected as legislature party leader by the MLAs in a party meeting on Sunday. With this, she has made his way to become next chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
She has not formal political experience except for the last month-and-a-half, but she is expected to assume office on February 7 or 9. According to the constitutional directive, she has to get elected to the Assembly as a legislature with six months of taking charges as Chief Minister.
Panneerselvam proposed her name at the legislative meeting
Her name was proposed by Current CM Panneerselvam at the meeting of AIADMK legislators, party leaders said, “I resigned and we elected Sasikala unanimously as leader of the party in the assembly. All MLAs are in support,” said Panneerselvam.
While addressing the MLAs, 62-year-old lady granted the loyalty of Pannerselvam to the party and claimed it was he who first urged her to take over the charge as a general secretary as well as the Chief Minister, soon after Jayalalithaa’s death. “However, I was not in the frame of mind to accept it then,” she said. The current CM Panneerselvam was sworn in Chief Minister in the early hours of December 6 last year.
AIADMK Party: TN is witness of three who were not elected being sworn in as CM
Tamil Nadu is a witness of those past occasions when persons not elected to the Assembly being sworn in as Chief Minister are — C.N. Annadurai in 1967, V.N. Janaki (MGR’s widow) in 1987 and Jayalalithaa in 2001. Of them, Janaki had to quit office within 24 days having lost the confidence of the House. Sasikala proposed swearing-in will be the third such event since May 2016 when Jayalalithaa retained power.
