{"id":62462,"date":"2017-02-18T04:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T04:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=62462"},"modified":"2017-02-18T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T11:13:30","slug":"eps-fate-hangs-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/eps-fate-hangs-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"EPS wins the trust vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EPS has won the trust vote amidst chaos ,confusion and violence.Another AIADMK legislator Arun Kumar has withdrawn his support for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami, a proxy of party chief VK Sasikala now in jail in corruption case, who will seek a vote of confidence to prove his majority in assembly at a special session called by the state&#8217;s Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao. On the other hand the DMK leader Stallin has announced that they will vote against EPS. Karunanidhi will not be coming to Assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest development further narrows the support for Mr Palaniswami, who will need to demonstrate on the floor of the 234-member House, the support of at least half or 117 legislators. He now has with him 122 of the ruling AIADMK&#8217;s 134 MLAs, excluding the Speaker, which is a slim five more than the majority mark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62464\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Paneer.jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"EPS fate hangs in balance\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will be a voice vote and no secret ballot.MK Stalin of main opposition party the DMK, which has 89 members, has said his party will vote against Mr Palaniswami when he seeks a trust vote today while the Congress with 8 members has said it will wait for the party high command&#8217;s directive, though it has hinted at voting against Palaniswami as has the Indian Union of Muslim League or IUML which has one member. DMK chief M Karunanidhi, 93, is unwell and may not attend tomorrow&#8217;s trust vote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a series of tweets Panneerselvam or OPS invoked J Jayalalithaa, the powerful matriarch of the AIADMK who died in December. &#8220;I reiterate to AIADMK MLAs, please think wisely before casting your vote tomorrow. Don&#8217;t buckle under pressure&#8230; Please vote against the trust vote and safeguard the interests of Amma,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPS has won the trust vote amidst chaos ,confusion and violence.Another AIADMK legislator Arun Kumar has withdrawn his support for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami, a proxy of party chief VK Sasikala now in jail in corruption case, who will seek a vote of confidence to prove his majority in assembly at a special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[3168,32511,32512,32508,7769,10560,32509,32510,30703],"class_list":["post-62462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-aiadmk","tag-corruption-case","tag-dmk-leader-stallin","tag-eps-fate-hangs-in-balance","tag-governor-ch-vidyasagar-rao","tag-karunanidhi","tag-legislator-arun-kumar","tag-tamil-nadu-chief-minister-e-palaniswami","tag-vk-sasikala"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/palanisami-759.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}