Chennai: Amid speculations of making a comeback as Tamil Nadu chief minister, AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa has called for a meeting of party legislators on May 22 in Chennai. Jayalalithaa was earlier this week acquitted by the Karnataka High Court in a disproportionate assets case.
The meeting will be held at party headquarters here at 7 AM, 67-year old Jayalalithaa said. All the 151 MLAs have been asked to attend the meeting without fail, according to a party release.
All the other accused in the case have also been acquitted on the basis of an appeal by the latter. In wake of her acquittal, her counsel B. Kumar had stated that she can now become chief minister again.
Decks were cleared for Jayalalithaa’s return as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister after the Karnataka High Court on May 11 acquitted her in the 19-year-old disproportionate assets case.
The court had set aside her conviction by the trial court and the four-year jail sentence awarded to her and three others, which has led to her automatic disqualification as MLA and exit as Chief Minister in September last year.
Senior party leader O Panneerselvam had assumed charge as stop-gap Chief Minister after being hand picked by Jayalalithaa to succeed her.
Bureau Report
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