Meet Edappadi Palanisamy, Tamil Nadu CM and Sasikala’s Loyalist

After a tumultuous week, Edappadi K Palanisamy was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

Edappadi K Palanisamy, Tamil Nadu’s third Chief Minister in the last nine months, was sworn in on Thursday.

After a tumultuous week, deciding the fate of the state, Governor C Vidyasagar Rao invited Palanisamy to form the government. The new chief minister has 15 days to prove his majority in a floor test in the state assembly.

In the wake of her conviction in the disproportionate assets case on Tuesday, VK Sasikala had stepped down as the chief of the AIADMK and handed over the reigns of the party to Palanisamy.

The 63-year-old MLA’s elevation to the post of the legislature party leader came at an emergency meeting called by Sasikala at the Golden Bay Resort, where MLAs supporting her had been holed up for the last few days.

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