 "The Southern Satrap")
Edappadi K Palaniswami, 63, was sworn into office on Thursday as the 21st chief minister of Tamil Nadu. This will be followed by a floor test on Saturday.
As widely reported already, he was the choice of the ruling AIADMK’s now-jailed chief, V K Sasikala, after her own claim to the job was aborted by the Supreme Court convicting her in an old graft case.
His challenge and that of the party’s new deputy chief, T T V Dinakaran, who is Saikala’s nephew and was appointed by her to the charge after her jail verdict, is to keep
