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16 Feb.2017: 18 Jamadiul Awwal 1438: Vol:8, No:118
INDIA:ELECTIONS &
POLITICS
Live Governor
invites Edappadi Palaniswami to form govt; he will be sworn in at 5 pm
Governor Ch.
Vidyasagar Rao on Thursday invited AIADMK legislature party leader Edappadi K.
Palaniswami to form the government in Tamil Nadu.
The updates:
12.14 p.m.:
Edappadi K. Palaniswami has to prove his majority within 15 days. The leader
will be sworn in at 5 p.m.
11.35 a.m. AIADMK
legislature party leader Edappadi K. Palaniswami has arrived at Raj Bhavan to
meet Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao.
10.56 a.m.:Palaniswami
has left Golden Bay Resorts in Kuvathur with four Ministers, including S.P.
Velumani and P. Thangamani.
10.40 a.m.: Here's
a round-up of the developments on Wednesday.
The two camps — one
led by Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam and the other by Mr. Palaniswami — met
the Governor late night. “The meeting lasted for about 25 minutes. We told the
Governor that it was a clear case of majority, and Mr. Palaniswami should be
invited to form the government,” said a party senior, who was at the meeting.
“We also told him
that Mr. Palaniswami was also popular and known among the people in the State.
We asked him to render justice. The Governor did not say anything. He treated
us with respect and listened to us,” he said.
Speaking to reporters
outside the Raj Bhavan, Fisheries Minister D. Jayakumar said, “We informed the
Governor that Mr. Palaniswami has been nominated unanimously by the party MLAs.
We have confidence that he will uphold democracy. He informed us that he will
consider our views.”
“We have 124 MLAs.
They [Mr. Panneerselvam’s camp] have only 8 MLAs. Is 8 big or is 124? Think
about it,” Mr. Jayakumar said.
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AIADMK interim
general secretary V.K. Sasikala, convicted by the Supreme Court in the
disproportionate assets case on Tuesday, surrendered at a special court, a few
hundred metres from Bengaluru Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara, and became
prisoner no. 9234.
Before leaving for
Bengaluru by road on Wednesday, Ms. Sasikala stopped by at the memorial to
Jayalalithaa on the Marina in Chennai and dramatically slapped the memorial’s
slab thrice as if taking a vow. After this, she headed out to former Chief
Minister M.G. Ramachandran’s house in Ramavaram and paid floral tributes to his
portrait and his statue. She also spent a few minutes sitting on the floor of
the house in front of the portrait. Thehindu
Tamil Nadu LIVE
updates: Governor Palanisamy to form govt, he has 15 days to prove majority
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