Tag: Tamil Nadu chief minister

Cost of a reward

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edapadi Palaniswamy, who holds the home portfolio, could have avoided appointing TK Rajendran as the Director-General of Police (Law and Order), minutes before he was due to retire on 30 June, thereby giving him an extension of service for two years and blocking the promotions of competent officers with better service...

July 7, 2017

Palaniswami plants sapling to mark Jayalalithaa birthday

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday planted a sapling here to mark the late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's 69th birth anniversary. The sapling was planed at the Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital. According to an official statement, the state has initiated a programme of planting 69 lakh saplings across Tamil Nadu at a cost...

February 24, 2017

TN CM Palaniswami moves confidence motion

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Saturday moved a motion of confidence in the assembly in favour of his government. Soon after Palaniswami moved the motion, heated arguments began with Leader of Opposition M.K. Stalin urging the speaker to allow AIADMK MLA S. Semmalai to speak. Semmalai is part of former Chief Minister O.Panneerselvam's...

February 18, 2017

TN CM Palaniswami moves confidence motion

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Saturday moved a motion of confidence in the assembly in favour of his government. Soon after Palaniswami moved the motion, heated arguments began with Leader of Opposition M.K. Stalin urging the speaker to allow AIADMK MLA S. Semmalai to speak. Semmalai is part of former Chief Minister O.Panneerselvam's...

February 18, 2017

Ahead of confidence vote, TN CM loses another legislator

Hours before Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami seeks a vote of confidence in the Tamil Nadu assembly on Saturday, Arun Kumar, a legislator from Coimbatore North has also jumped shift. Speaking over the phone from Coimbatore, Arun Kumar said: "I left the beach resort… I was not held back." He said party cadres and the people...

February 18, 2017

OPS camp demands secret ballot to decide on confidence motion

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam's camp has demanded secret ballot on Saturday when the motion of confidence is moved in the assembly, leaders said. After holding hectic discussions at Panneerselvam's residence on Friday morning, a small group of AIADMK leaders met the Speaker in the Secretariat and demanded secret ballot on Saturday. Speaking to...

February 17, 2017

OPS camp demands secret ballot to decide on confidence motion

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam's camp has demanded secret ballot on Saturday when the motion of confidence is moved in the assembly, leaders said. After holding hectic discussions at Panneerselvam's residence on Friday morning, a small group of AIADMK leaders met the Speaker in the Secretariat and demanded secret ballot on Saturday. Speaking to...

February 17, 2017

Panneerselvam faction meet TN Assembly Speaker

Members from the O Panneerselvam faction on Friday met Speaker P Dhanapal, a day ahead of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami's floor test. The team of members which included K Pandiarajan, S Semmalai and Shanmuganthan (all MLAs) and senior leader C Ponnaiyan, however, did not reveal to the waiting media details of their...

February 17, 2017

2 Lok Sabha MPs join Panneerselvam camp

Two Lok Sabha members on Saturday extended support to acting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam by joining his camp. The two members — Ashok Kumar representing Krishnagiri constituency and Sundaram representing Namakkal — visited Panneerselvam at his residence here. Earlier, sitting Rajya Sabha member V Maitreyan had joined Panneerselvam camp. The two MPs have...

February 11, 2017

Jaya’s soul will not forgive Panneerselvam: AIADMK

Ruling AIADMK on Friday kept up its attack on O Panneerselvam, saying Jayalalithaa's "soul will not forgive" him for trying to split the party, and asserted that General Secretary V K Sasikala will be soon sworn in as Chief Minister. Responding to party Presidium Chairman E Madusudanan hopping camps to join Panneerselvam, AIADMK Spokesperson Vaigaichelvan said...

February 10, 2017

SC declines to hear urgent plea against Sasikala

 The Supreme Court on Friday declined to hold an urgent hearing of a plea seeking direction against AIADMK leader VK Sasikala being sworn-in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. A bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said "sorry declined" as the petitioner urged the bench to hear the...

February 10, 2017

Panneerselvam is a traitor, says Sasikala

AIADMK General Secretary VK Sasikala on Wednesday called former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam a “traitor” and said that “betrayal has never won”. "Neither AIADMK nor me will be cowed down. Nobody has the power to split or divide us… betrayal has never won," Sasikala told a gathering of around 129 legislators of the party in...

February 8, 2017

I never met Jayalalithaa in hospital, says Panneerselvam

In his first public comments on Jayalalithaa's hospitalisation, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam on Wednesday said he could not meet her even once during her 75 days of hospitalisation. He also said that no political leader could meet her in the Apollo Hospitals where she died on December 5. "For 75 days I went to...

February 8, 2017

Sasikala swearing-in date yet to be finalised: AIADMK

The date for swearing-in AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala as Tamil Nadu chief minister is yet to be finalised, a party spokesperson said on Monday. "There is no information (yet) on the swearing-in date," C R Saraswathi said amid speculation that it could be on February 9. A Raj Bhavan official said Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao is presently in Delhi...

February 6, 2017

People did not vote for anyone from Jaya’s household to be CM: Stalin

People of Tamil Nadu did not vote for anyone from Jayalalithaa's "household" to be chief minister, says DMK Working President M K Stalin, who appears to be keeping his options open on the possibility of another government in the tenure of the current Assembly. He also asserts that there are no "obstacles" to his leadership...

February 5, 2017

Sasikala may replace Panneerselvam as Tamil Nadu CM

V K Sasikala, the former aide of J Jayalalithaa, may take over as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, according to several media reports. The decision to replace O Panneerselvam as the state Chief Minister will be taken after a crucial meeting of the Tamil Nadu's ruling party All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)...

February 4, 2017

TN CM to visit AP for talks over Telugu Ganga water sharing

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam is slated to visit the Andhra Pradesh capital Amaravati on Thursday for talks with his counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu over sharing of Telugu Ganga water. The Tamil Nadu chief minister will visit Andhra Pradesh 's interim government complex at Velagapudi for a meeting at 1 PM with the AP CM, sources said...

January 11, 2017