Chennai:Edappadi K. Palaniswami, the outgoing Chief Minister and coordinator of AIADMK is all set to become the Leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
The meeting held at the party headquarters on Monday has concluded to elect EPS as the next opposition leader of Tamil Nadu. Sources in the AIADMK said that EPS has got the support of 61 of the 66 party legislators.
AIADMK Party Coordinator O Pannerselavam, joint Coordinator K Palanisami and other top leaders were present in the meeting.
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In the recently concluded assembly polls, DMK emerged as a ruling party with 133 seats while AIADMK bagged 66 and emerged as the main opposition on the floor of the house.
EPS got the edge as he was considered instrumental in the party's win in Western Tamil Nadu and Northern Tamil Nadu while in South Tamil Nadu, which is the turf of the Thevar community and thereby OPS, did not yield the necessary results for the party. In the Cumbum district of South Tamil Nadu, OPS was the lone winner from the Bodinayakanur constituency while all the other AIADMK candidates had to bite the dust.
On the other hand, EPS won comfortably with more than 90,000 votes from his sitting constituency of Edappady in Salem district and also paved the way for the victory of 10 out of the 11 AIADMK candidates in the district.