All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIDMK), the ruling party of Tamil Nadu appointed VK Sasikala, an aide of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, as the general secretary in a general council meeting on Thursday. Henceforth, the era of Sasikala in the AIDMK has begun.
In one of the 14 resolutions adopted by the party in the meeting, AIDMK made it clear that Sasikala will lead the party until a new general secretary is elected. The party also sought that Jayalalithaa’s birthday to be celebrated as “National Farmers Day.”
Apart from this, it demanded that the former chief minister of Tamil Nadu to be conferred with Magsaysay Award and Nobel Prize for World Peace in the resolution.
However, the meeting was nothing more than a formality since veteran leaders of the party had openly declared that Sasikala would be the new general secretary.
As reported by the Deccan Chronicle, party spokesman C Ponnaiyan had said that no one has submitted claim to challenge for the position of general secretary. Thus, ‘Chinnamma’ will be elected unanimously.
“She alone has the capacity to safeguard the party since she had been with Amma during 30 years of political life. She has all the capabilities to take over as the general secretary”, Ponnaiyan had said on Wednesday.
Notably, Sasikala didn’t attend the meeting on Thursday. A party source informed The Indian Express that Sasikala was told by her astrologer to engage in the new position either on January 2 or 3.
Following the death of Jayalalithaa, this was the first general council meeting of the party.
