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Jayalalithaa to take oath as Tamil Nadu CM today

by IBNS 23 May 2015, 08:27 am

Chennai, May 23 (IBNS) AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa, who is set to return as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu will be sworn-in on Saturday.

Reports said She will take oath in the centenary hall of the Madras University at 11 am, along with 28 ministers, eight months after she was convicted in a corruption case and had to resign.

Chennai is decked up in the colours of J Jayalalithaa's AIADMK, with large cutouts of the leader dominating the cityscape. Since early morning, there are roadblocks and traffic restrictions around the Madras University.

Early in the morning,  people began lining up along the route that Ms Jayalalithaa, fondly called Amma or mother, will take to catch a glimpse of her. She made her first public appearance in eight months yesterday.

In a rapid development on Friday morning, Chief Minister O Panneerselvam resigned , soon after 144 of the AIADMK's 150 lawmakers met at the party headquarters in Chennai to unanimously elect Jayalalithaa as the leader of the legislature party.

 Panneerselvam then met the Governor, who accepted his resignation.

The Governor then invited  Jayalalithaa to form government "at the earliest," and  asked her for a list of ministers who will take oath with her which she submitted while meeting the Governor at the Raj Bhavan.