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Jayalalithaa's aide Sasikala to become AIADMK general secretary?

| | Dec 11, 2016, at 07:26 pm
Chennai, Dec 11 (IBNS): With the death of Tamil Nadu's "Amma", it is now being speculated that J Jayalalithaa's longtime companion Sasikala Natarajan will be taking over as the general secretary of the AIADMK.

According to reports, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam has also backed Sasikala's name as eligible to head the party.

OPS and several other senior minsters on Thursday visited the Poes Garden residence of Jayalalithaa to meet Sasikala.

According to reports, they asserted Sasikala that she is the only person to take the charge.

“After Amma it is only Chinnamma. Chinnamma follows Amma’s footsteps,” Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker M. Thambidurai was quoted as saying by the Deccan Chronicle.

Sasikala holds no official position in the party.

Senior AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam on Tuesday took oath as the new Tamil Nadu CM, hours after J Jayalalithaa passed away at a hospital here.

Tamil Nadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao administered the oath ceremony.

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa , who was also a top heroine of Tamil film industry before she joined politics full time, was declared dead by the  Apollo  Hospital last Tuesday.

 

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