In key meeting, AIADMK decides to work under Sasikala Natarajan.
As widely expected late Jayalalithaa's aide V K Sasikala was on Thursday appointed the AIADMK General Secretary at the party general council meet in her absence, a decision she immediately accepted.
The post fell vacant following the demise of party general secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on December 5.
The Chief Minister along with leaders including Lok Sabha Deputy Leader M Thambidurai and Edappadi K Palanisamy handed her a copy of the party resolution including her appointment.
Speaking to the media, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam said, "We passed a resolution on Sasikala Natarajan to be the next AIADMK General Secretary and urged her by giving resolution copy. Sasikala Natarajan has promised and accepted that from today she will be General Secretary of AIADMK, and will soon formally take charge."
14 resolutions were passed in AIADMK general body meeting, including one to confer late CM Jayalalithaa with the Magsaysay Award and the Nobel prize for World Peace.
A resolution demanding Jayalalithaa's birthday be celebrated as 'National Farmers Day' was also adopted in the meet.
After the passing away of J Jayalalithaa on December 5, party cadres and top functionaries including Chief Minister O Panneerselvam had been urging Sasikala to assume the party's top post of General Secretary and lead them.
The venue of the meeting, Srivaru Venkatachalapathi Kalyana Mandapan sported life size hoardings of a smiling Jayalalithaa waving to party workers in the departed leader's favourite green colour.
Several leaders had also urged Sasikala to assume the mantle of both the party and governance as general secretary and Chief Minister respectively.
On Wednesday, AIADMK cadres had allegedly attacked and injured the husband of expelled party MP Sasikala Pushpa, who was accused of trying to create a law-and-order problem ahead of the General Council meeting here.
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