Tamil Nadu: Palaniswami passes floortest, 122 MLAs vote in his favour in TN Assembly

Tamil Nadu: Palaniswami passes floortest, 122 MLAs vote in his favour in TN Assembly

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Saturday won the vote of confidence in the state assembly.

Palaniswami, who was sworn in on Thursday as Chief Minister, won with 122 votes for the motion, while 11 votes were cast against the confidence vote by the rival AIADMK camp led by former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam.

Palaniswami belongs to the AIADMK faction led by party General Secretary V.K. Sasikala.

The end came tamely after DMK's 88 members, who were present were ordered to be evicted by Speaker P. Dhanapal after they indulged in ruckus.

After that Congress legislators walked out in protest, dashing the hopes of Panneerselvam.

The AIADMK camp led by Sasikala were obviously happy and distributed sweets.

"The traitors were defeated," A. Navaneethakrishnan, part of Sasikala camp told reporters here.

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