{"id":61753,"date":"2017-02-14T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=61753"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T09:03:14","slug":"sasi-out-palaniswami-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/sasi-out-palaniswami-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasi out Palaniswami in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Less than two hours after the Supreme Court upheld the trial court&#8217;s verdict in the disproportionate assets case against AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikalaand others, party MLAs staying at a resort in Koovathur on Tuesday elected highways minister Edappadi K Palaniswami as legislature party leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Palaniswami was elected as legislature party leader to stake claim for the chief minister post after Sasikala held talks with the legislators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61754\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chinnammajail.jpg\" alt=\"Sasi out Palaniswami in\" width=\"530\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a related development, chief minister O Panneerselvam has been expelled from the primary membership of the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">V K Sasikala&#8217;s political aspirations came to an abrupt end today, with the Supreme Court upholding a special trial court&#8217;s conviction against her+ in a disproportionate assets case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quashing the Karnataka high court&#8217;s acquittal, the bench of Justices Pinaki C Ghose and Amitava Roy restored the conviction against former Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa, Sasikala Natarajan, Ilavarasi and VN Sudhakaran for criminal abetment in amassing properties worth more than Rs 66.65 crores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-61755\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/21TH_EDAPPADI2.jpg\" alt=\"Sasi out Palaniswami in\" width=\"492\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The apex court directed Sasikala to be taken into custody for serving the remainder of her four year jail sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a nearly thousand page judgment, the Supreme Court restored the Bangalore trial court&#8217;s verdict in entirety for Jayalalithaa, Sasikala and two others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two hours after the Supreme Court upheld the trial court&#8217;s verdict in the disproportionate assets case against AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikalaand others, party MLAs staying at a resort in Koovathur on Tuesday elected highways minister Edappadi K Palaniswami as legislature party leader. 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