Jayalalithaa Oath

E Palaniswami today won the trust vote in the Tamil Nadu Assembly after the house witnessed chaos and violence. He won 122 votes with only 11 rebels of his AIADMK voting against him. He needed the backing of at least 117 legislators in the 234-member State Assembly. Mr Palaniswami took oath on Thursday with a 30-member cabinet. He is widely seen as...

A week ago, VK Sasikala was in Chennai and hoped to be Tamil Nadu chief minister. On Thursday, she watched the new chief minister, her loyalist E Palaniswami, take oath on TV from a Bengaluru prison with other inmates sitting around her. Among her prison mates, lodged in an adjacent cell, is Cyanide Mallika, who is accused of killing six women she ...

O Panneerselvam, in internet speak, is lit. His mission to lose the qualifier of "acting" from his rank as Chief Minister was bumped today with rival E Palaniswami taking over from him, but Mr Panneerselvam -"OPS" - whose car was stripped of the lal batti or red light that gives it right of way, belligerently declared, "Our battle will continue."

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...

AIADMK's Edappadi Palaniswami, party chief VK Sasikala's proxy, will seek a vote of confidence on Saturday to prove he has majority support in the Tamil Nadu legislature, at a special session called by the state's Governor C Vidyasagar Rao. Mr Palaniswami took oath as Chief Minister earlier this evening along with a 31-member cabinet. Mr Palaniswam...

The Supreme Court will at 10:30 this morning rule on whether VK Sasikala, AIADMK chief, is guilty of helping former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa amass illicit wealth worth over 60 crores in the 1990s. The verdict will decide the political career of Ms Sasikala, who has staked claim to be Tamil Nadu's next Chief Minister. If the court up...

Ahead of a Supreme Court verdict that will decide her political future, AIADMK General Secretary VK Sasikala has said she will spend the night at a five-star resort near Chennai where she has kept about 120 legislators sequestered for almost a week. Today the Supreme Court will rule whether Ms Sasikala is guilty of colluding with former Chief Minis...

VK Sasikala will be Chief Minister by Thursday, Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK insisted today as Governor Vidyasagar Rao consulted legal experts on whether such an oath ceremony should be held at all. Adding to the ruling party's pain, a veteran leader went public with his strong disapproval of Ms Sasikala - former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's long-ti...

VK Sasikala, the long-time friend of J Jayalalithaa chosen by Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK to take over as Chief Minister, will not be sworn in today. Or Tomorrow. Governor C Vidyasagar Rao, who is to administer the oath of office, is in Mumbai and has cancelled all his plans in Tamil Nadu.

VK Sasikala, the longtime friend of J Jayalalithaa who emerged from the shadows after her death, will take over as the next Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in a remarkable rise for a person who has never fought an election. Even before an oath ceremony, her name and image is prominent on the Twitter page of the Chief Minister's Office or CMO, with tra...

O Panneerselvam who stepped down as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to pave the way for party chief VK Sasikala, had signed his letter of resignation long before AIADMK legislators held their meeting on Sunday.

O Panneerselvam took oath as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister at around 1.15 am on Tuesday, a few hours after his party chief J Jayalalithaa died at Chennai's Apollo Hospital. He placed Ms Jayalalithaa's photograph on the dais before taking oath and after being sworn in, put the picture into his pocket.

J Jayalalithaa took oath on Monday as chief minister of Tamil Nadu along with 28 ministers, 13 of them new faces. Among those who attended the ceremony were MK Stalin of arch political rival, the DMK.

In a rare peace gesture between Tamil Nadu's main rivals, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa thanked DMK's MK Stalin for attending her oath ceremony and also sought to placate him on his back row seat.

Sarbananda Sonowal's treatment of opposition leader Tarun Gogoi in Assam today is expected to be remarkably different than witnessed at Jayalalithaa's oath ceremony on Monday in Tamil Nadu, where the DMK has complained that its MK Stalin was "deliberately humiliated."

E Palaniswami today won the trust vote in the Tamil Nadu Assembly after the house witnessed chaos and violence. He won 122 votes with only 11 rebels of his AIADMK voting against him. He needed the backing of at least 117 legislators in the 234-member State Assembly. Mr Palaniswami took oath on Thursday with a 30-member cabinet. He is widely seen as...

A week ago, VK Sasikala was in Chennai and hoped to be Tamil Nadu chief minister. On Thursday, she watched the new chief minister, her loyalist E Palaniswami, take oath on TV from a Bengaluru prison with other inmates sitting around her. Among her prison mates, lodged in an adjacent cell, is Cyanide Mallika, who is accused of killing six women she ...

O Panneerselvam, in internet speak, is lit. His mission to lose the qualifier of "acting" from his rank as Chief Minister was bumped today with rival E Palaniswami taking over from him, but Mr Panneerselvam -"OPS" - whose car was stripped of the lal batti or red light that gives it right of way, belligerently declared, "Our battle will continue."

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...

AIADMK's Edappadi Palaniswami, party chief VK Sasikala's proxy, will seek a vote of confidence on Saturday to prove he has majority support in the Tamil Nadu legislature, at a special session called by the state's Governor C Vidyasagar Rao. Mr Palaniswami took oath as Chief Minister earlier this evening along with a 31-member cabinet. Mr Palaniswam...

The Supreme Court will at 10:30 this morning rule on whether VK Sasikala, AIADMK chief, is guilty of helping former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa amass illicit wealth worth over 60 crores in the 1990s. The verdict will decide the political career of Ms Sasikala, who has staked claim to be Tamil Nadu's next Chief Minister. If the court up...

Ahead of a Supreme Court verdict that will decide her political future, AIADMK General Secretary VK Sasikala has said she will spend the night at a five-star resort near Chennai where she has kept about 120 legislators sequestered for almost a week. Today the Supreme Court will rule whether Ms Sasikala is guilty of colluding with former Chief Minis...

VK Sasikala will be Chief Minister by Thursday, Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK insisted today as Governor Vidyasagar Rao consulted legal experts on whether such an oath ceremony should be held at all. Adding to the ruling party's pain, a veteran leader went public with his strong disapproval of Ms Sasikala - former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's long-ti...

VK Sasikala, the long-time friend of J Jayalalithaa chosen by Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK to take over as Chief Minister, will not be sworn in today. Or Tomorrow. Governor C Vidyasagar Rao, who is to administer the oath of office, is in Mumbai and has cancelled all his plans in Tamil Nadu.

VK Sasikala, the longtime friend of J Jayalalithaa who emerged from the shadows after her death, will take over as the next Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in a remarkable rise for a person who has never fought an election. Even before an oath ceremony, her name and image is prominent on the Twitter page of the Chief Minister's Office or CMO, with tra...

O Panneerselvam who stepped down as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to pave the way for party chief VK Sasikala, had signed his letter of resignation long before AIADMK legislators held their meeting on Sunday.

O Panneerselvam took oath as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister at around 1.15 am on Tuesday, a few hours after his party chief J Jayalalithaa died at Chennai's Apollo Hospital. He placed Ms Jayalalithaa's photograph on the dais before taking oath and after being sworn in, put the picture into his pocket.

J Jayalalithaa took oath on Monday as chief minister of Tamil Nadu along with 28 ministers, 13 of them new faces. Among those who attended the ceremony were MK Stalin of arch political rival, the DMK.

In a rare peace gesture between Tamil Nadu's main rivals, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa thanked DMK's MK Stalin for attending her oath ceremony and also sought to placate him on his back row seat.

Sarbananda Sonowal's treatment of opposition leader Tarun Gogoi in Assam today is expected to be remarkably different than witnessed at Jayalalithaa's oath ceremony on Monday in Tamil Nadu, where the DMK has complained that its MK Stalin was "deliberately humiliated."