Chennai, May 3(BPNS)

Tamil Nadu Governor Bhanwarilal Purohit on Monday accepted the resignation of Chief minister Edappady K Palaniswami and dissolved the 15^th  legislative assembly. The Governor requested Chief Minister Edappady K Palaniswami to continue till alternate arrangements are made.

In the elections to the Tamil Nadu assembly DMK led front had defeated the AIADMK led front when the results had come on May 2^nd and this led to the resignation of Chief minister Edappady K Palaniswami.

Newly elected legislators of the DMK will be meeting at the party headquarters “Anna Arivalam” on Tuesday at 6pm and will elect party president MK Stalin as its leader. Stalin, according to party leaders, will swear in on May 7^th ,Friday as the Chief minister of Tamil Nadu at the Rajbhavan premises in a simple function taking into account the surging cases of Covid and sticking on to Covid protocol.

Stalin has already told his party leaders that the swearing in has to be a simple function with no fanfare.