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Sunday, February 19, 2017,
Chennai
Chief Minister Edappadi Palanisamy comfortably won the vote of confidence in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, shortly after DMK unleashed an orgy of violence against Speaker P Dhanapal, with 122 votes for the motion , and 11 against (cast by the dissident group led by O Panneerselvam).
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017,
Chennai
AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala, convicted to four years prison term in the Disproportionate Assets case, left the Kuvathur
resort on Feb 14 night, and began preparations for her journey to surrender before Bengaluru court.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017,
Chennai
AIADMK legislature party leader and general secretary Edappadi Palanisamy met Governor C Vidyasagar Rao at the Raj Bhavan here this evening and staked his claim to form a new government. He is said to have handed over a copy of the LP resolution, unanimously electing him as the LP leader, and a list of 126 party MLAs who were supporting him.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017,
Chennai
Tamil Nadu Acting Governor C Vidyasagar Rao has invited AIADMK Legislature Party (LP) leader Edappadi Palanisamy and 11 others to meet him at Raj Bhavan here shortly. Edappadi Palanisamy will formally stake his claim to form the government.
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Saturday, February 11, 2017,
Chennai
The ruling AIADMK is heading for a vertical split and loss of government, as a spell of President's rule looks likely, ending in fresh elections to the Assembly. The only way out for the AIADMK is to elect a new legislature party leader, other than Sasikala, from its MLAs and have this leader installed immediately as CM. The governor restriction is only for Sasikala but not to another leader of its MLAs.
