Jayalalithaa Chief Ministers Meeting

VK Sasikala, the aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, met actor Rajinikanth at the superstar's house in Poes Garden in Chennai on Monday evening, news agency ANI reported.

Taking a tacit dig at superstars Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, who are seen to have timed their political debuts following former chief minister Jayalalithaa's death and DMK boss M Karunanidhi's age and poor health, DMK leader MK Stalin on Sunday asserted that there was no vacuum, at least not in his party.

After a meeting of top leaders to analyse Sunday's humiliating defeat in the RK Nagar by-election, Tamil Nadu's ruling party the AIADMK has expelled six senior functionaries, calling them "betrayers" for supporting sidelined leader TTV Dhinakaran. Mr Dhinakaran contested as an Independent candidate and won RK Nagar, the assembly seat of former chie...

Nine months after former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa died in a Chennai hospital after a prolonged illness, Tamil Nadu Forest Minister Dindigul C Sreenivasan has asked for the public's forgiveness for lying about her health when she was at hospital.

J Jayalalithaa will be the AIADMK's "eternal general secretary," Tamil Nadu's ruling party said today, scrapping the post and sacking VK Sasikala, who is in jail. The party will be run by Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam as Chief Coordinator and Chief Minister E Palaniswami as his assistant at the head of an 11-member panel. Today's meeting ma...

J Jayalalithaa's niece Deepa Jayakumar and nephew Deepak are incensed over a plan to turn her sprawling home in Chennai's Poes Garden into a memorial for the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister - a decision that meets one of the many conditions set by a rebel faction of the ruling AIADMK for a merger.

After 25 ministers and lawmakers held an emergency meeting in capital Chennai on Monday night, the VK Sasikala-led AIADMK faction that rules Tamil Nadu has "welcomed" what it said was an offer from the rival O Panneerselvam camp to discuss re-uniting the party. There is pressure reportedly on party chief Ms Sasikala and her nephew and deputy TTV Di...

South megastar Rajinikanth tweeted this morning that he supports "no one" in the intense political battle for the RK Nagar constituency of Tamil Nadu, which fell vacant after former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's death.

Tamil Nadu will get its third Chief Minister in two months - E Palaniswami will take oath at 4:30 pm today, and must then prove his majority within 15 days. With this decision, Governor C Vidyasagar Rao has ruled in favour of the larger faction of the ruling AIADMK, which has been cleaved by dissent, owing to O Panneerselvam's refusal to quit the s...

A team led by Edappadi Palanisamy, handpicked by VK Sasikala as the AIADMK's presumptive Chief Minister, met Tamil Nadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao on Wednesday evening and said it expects him to invite them today to form government in the state. The Governor later met O Panneerselvam, who too has staked claim to the top post. Ms Sasikala has reached...

Hours after VK Sasikala's run for Chief Minister was brought to a skidding halt by the Supreme Court, which found her guilty of corruption, she has moved at breakneck speed to ensure she remains the show-runner of the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu. Ms Sasikala was sentenced this morning to four years in prison - it's uncertain when she has to head to...

VK Sasikala may lead a hunger strike by her legislators at Former Chief Minister J Jayalalaithaa's memorial in Chennai today if the Governor doesn't invite her to form the government, sources have said.

In scenes perfected by many a Hollywood drama, a cavalcade of around 30 SUVs snaked its way this afternoon from Poes Garden, the residence of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, to the beachfront luxury resort 80 km away, that has been at the heart of the political crisis gripping the state for the last week. The occasion was for VK Sa...

Before her meeting with Tamil Nadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao last night, VK Sasikala made an emotional stopover at the beach-side memorial of former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who died in December.

VK Sasikala opened her meeting with Governor C Vidyasagar Rao by stating, in English, "I stake claim." After that, the 10 Tamil Nadu ministers who accompanied her last evening elaborated on the support within the ruling AIADMK for Ms Sasikala to take over as Chief Minister, a decision made first by the party on Sunday.

VK Sasikala, the aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, met actor Rajinikanth at the superstar's house in Poes Garden in Chennai on Monday evening, news agency ANI reported.

Taking a tacit dig at superstars Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, who are seen to have timed their political debuts following former chief minister Jayalalithaa's death and DMK boss M Karunanidhi's age and poor health, DMK leader MK Stalin on Sunday asserted that there was no vacuum, at least not in his party.

After a meeting of top leaders to analyse Sunday's humiliating defeat in the RK Nagar by-election, Tamil Nadu's ruling party the AIADMK has expelled six senior functionaries, calling them "betrayers" for supporting sidelined leader TTV Dhinakaran. Mr Dhinakaran contested as an Independent candidate and won RK Nagar, the assembly seat of former chie...

Nine months after former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa died in a Chennai hospital after a prolonged illness, Tamil Nadu Forest Minister Dindigul C Sreenivasan has asked for the public's forgiveness for lying about her health when she was at hospital.

J Jayalalithaa will be the AIADMK's "eternal general secretary," Tamil Nadu's ruling party said today, scrapping the post and sacking VK Sasikala, who is in jail. The party will be run by Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam as Chief Coordinator and Chief Minister E Palaniswami as his assistant at the head of an 11-member panel. Today's meeting ma...

J Jayalalithaa's niece Deepa Jayakumar and nephew Deepak are incensed over a plan to turn her sprawling home in Chennai's Poes Garden into a memorial for the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister - a decision that meets one of the many conditions set by a rebel faction of the ruling AIADMK for a merger.

After 25 ministers and lawmakers held an emergency meeting in capital Chennai on Monday night, the VK Sasikala-led AIADMK faction that rules Tamil Nadu has "welcomed" what it said was an offer from the rival O Panneerselvam camp to discuss re-uniting the party. There is pressure reportedly on party chief Ms Sasikala and her nephew and deputy TTV Di...

South megastar Rajinikanth tweeted this morning that he supports "no one" in the intense political battle for the RK Nagar constituency of Tamil Nadu, which fell vacant after former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's death.

Tamil Nadu will get its third Chief Minister in two months - E Palaniswami will take oath at 4:30 pm today, and must then prove his majority within 15 days. With this decision, Governor C Vidyasagar Rao has ruled in favour of the larger faction of the ruling AIADMK, which has been cleaved by dissent, owing to O Panneerselvam's refusal to quit the s...

A team led by Edappadi Palanisamy, handpicked by VK Sasikala as the AIADMK's presumptive Chief Minister, met Tamil Nadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao on Wednesday evening and said it expects him to invite them today to form government in the state. The Governor later met O Panneerselvam, who too has staked claim to the top post. Ms Sasikala has reached...

Hours after VK Sasikala's run for Chief Minister was brought to a skidding halt by the Supreme Court, which found her guilty of corruption, she has moved at breakneck speed to ensure she remains the show-runner of the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu. Ms Sasikala was sentenced this morning to four years in prison - it's uncertain when she has to head to...

VK Sasikala may lead a hunger strike by her legislators at Former Chief Minister J Jayalalaithaa's memorial in Chennai today if the Governor doesn't invite her to form the government, sources have said.

In scenes perfected by many a Hollywood drama, a cavalcade of around 30 SUVs snaked its way this afternoon from Poes Garden, the residence of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, to the beachfront luxury resort 80 km away, that has been at the heart of the political crisis gripping the state for the last week. The occasion was for VK Sa...

Before her meeting with Tamil Nadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao last night, VK Sasikala made an emotional stopover at the beach-side memorial of former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who died in December.

VK Sasikala opened her meeting with Governor C Vidyasagar Rao by stating, in English, "I stake claim." After that, the 10 Tamil Nadu ministers who accompanied her last evening elaborated on the support within the ruling AIADMK for Ms Sasikala to take over as Chief Minister, a decision made first by the party on Sunday.