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Chief Minister’s pics next to Jayalalithaa’s in Secretariat
In a firm indication of who is in command and control at the Secretariat, portraits of Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy (EPS) made it to the walls of the offices of Ministers on Tuesday, more than a hundred days after he took charge.
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The development comes at a time when intra-party feud in AIADMK had come to the fore. However, officials in the Secretariat chose to downplay the incident saying it was the norm to keep the portrait of the head of the state by his/her Cabinet colleagues. Every Minister had been invariably displaying the official photograph of former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa from the day she was sworn in. However, the official could not provide a reason for the delay in following the practice from February 16 – the day EPS was sworn in as Chief Minister.
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