Sasikala to be next Tamil Nadu CM as Panneerselvam resigns

Sasikala is not a MLA, something the country's Constitution requires her to remedy within 6 months

V K Sasikala, aide and head of late J Jayalalithaa’s domestic arrangements for about three decades, will be the next chief minister of Tamil Nadu.

She’d smoothly taken over as head of the ruling AIADMK after Jayalalithaa’s death in December, without any dissent. The entire senior leadership said they saw her as the late supremo’s successor – she was formally elected party head on December 30.

However, O Panneerselvam, who’d twice at Jayalalithaa’s behest briefly substituted for her as head of government (never as party head) when legal circumstances compelled this, had formally taken over as CM as