AIADMK party meet today to elect Jayalalithaa as leader

May 20, 2016 11:30

Newly elected AIADMK MLAs will meet in Chennai this evening to elect party chief J Jayalalithaa as legislature party leader, as she created history yesterday by becoming the first Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in 32 years to be voted back to power.

The AIADMK bagged 134 seats out of 232 assembly constituencies that went to polls. The opposition DMK won 89 seats, while Congress bagged eight and IUML one.

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