Sasikala will start party work soon, says Panneerselvam

“We told her (Sasikala) that she has been appointed the general secretary effective from Thursday itself. Very soon, she will come to the party headquarters and commence the party work,” Panneerselvam, who is also the AIADMK treasurer, said. 

“We requested her to accept the party’s decision of appointing her as the general secretary and give her concurrence to it and honourable Chinnamma wholeheartedly accepted it,” he told reporters here after calling on Sasikala at the Poes Garden residence of Jayalalithaa where she continues to live. Panneerselvam said, “She has agreed wholeheartedly to guard and lead the party like Amma by following her path.” 

Several other state ministers, including Revenue Minister RB Udhaya Kumar and Municipal Administration Minister SP Velumani, too said Sasikala had accepted the party decision, adding that she will 

soon start the party work. 

A resolution was adopted at Thursday’s AIADMK general council meet appointing Sasikala to the party’s top post. 

Celebrations in districts 

A section of AIADMK  cadre performed milk abhishekam to the statue of their party founder MGR, burst crackers and distributed sweets in Tiruchy on Thursday. 

This came after news of the resolutions being passed by the General Council in Chennai, including the one proposing Sasikala’s name for the post of General Secretary. 

The celebrations were identical in nature in other districts. In Madurai, AIADMK cadres distributed sweets and  raised slogans of ‘Chinnamma’   jubilantly. At Rameswaram, cadre assembled in front of the western tower of Ramanathaswamy Temple and burst  crackers. Lawyers in Thoothukudi, attached to AIADMK celebrated the news. 

Crackers were burst in  front of the Court on Palayamkottai Main Road.  However, in all the towns and villages important functionaries  were absent during the celebrations and it was the grass root workers who had participated in the celebrations.