New Delhi: Per week after the outcomes of the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, the primary opposition party AIADMK on Monday (May 10, 2021) elected former Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami as its legislature party leader. The announcement got here after two conferences over the past one week inside the AIADMK, to determine between O Pannerselvam and Palaniswami as the leader of the opposition.
The AIAMDK’s official Twitter deal with introduced the event forward of the maiden session of the State Assembly on Tuesday.
The earlier assembly of AIADMK party MLAs, which was held on Friday, was inconclusive as there have been arguments between the supporters of Palaniswami and Panneerselvam over who deserved to be the leader of the opposition.
It is pertinent to notice that Panneerselvam was all the time the trusted lieutenant of late AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa, as he was chosen to be sit-in Chief Minister at any time when Jayalalithaa had to step down owing to a disaster or incarceration. But in the tussle that ensued after Jayalalithaa’s demise in 2016, it was Palaniswami who regularly took over the reins of the party.
Between 2017 and 2021, Palaniswami held his flock collectively and continued to govern unhindered, regardless of repeated threats from the then Opposition leader Stalin about AIADMK Government’s imminent fall.
Of the 2 leaders, Palaniswami can also be seen as the one with a extra dynamic picture and join, as he has been on the forefront of AIADMK’s governance over the previous 4 years. With his vociferous assaults towards the opposition in the Assembly, defence of AIADMK’s choices and schemes, Palaniswami has established himself as the leader of the post-Jaya AIADMK. Palaniswami additionally has been the foremost campaigner for the AIADMK through the not too long ago concluded polls, the place his oratory abilities have been put to good use, in assaults towards the opposition. However, the AIADMK which was vying for a 3rd straight time period managed to win solely 66 seats, whereas their allies BJP and PMK gained 4 and 5 seats respectively.
In the 234-seat Assembly, the DMK underneath MK Stalin gained in 133 constituencies and their allies together with the Congress and Left events gained 26 constituencies. While there have been gamers such as Kamal Haasan, TTV DInakaran and Seeman who have been aiming to make a dent in the polls, all of their events drew a clean and solely managed to lower votes of the foremost events.
