Sasikala: Jayalaitha aide to take over as Tamil Nadu chief minister

India's southern Tamil Nadu state is to have another female boss priest, two months after the demise of powerful legislator J Jayalalitha.

The decision AIADMK party said Sasikala Natarajan would turn into the following boss priest taking after the renunciation of the acting boss clergyman.

A nearby friend of Jayalalitha, Sasikala was made the general secretary of the gathering after the last's passing.

Her rising to boss priest was supposed from that point forward.

"She is the following boss clergyman of Tamil Nadu. Like Amma (mother), we needed a solid lady pioneer to serve the general population," party representative CR Saraswathi revealed to AFP news organization, alluding to Jayalalithaa by her prominent epithet.

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O Panneerselvam, who had been filling in as boss pastor since October when Jayalalitha was hospitalized, said he ventured down for "individual reasons".

Be that as it may, Tamil Nadu's primary resistance party has reprimanded the choice.

"The general population of Tamil Nadu did not vote in favor of anybody from Jayalalitha's family unit to wind up CM," restriction pioneer MK Stalin tweeted, utilizing the acronym for boss priest.

For near three decades, Sasikala, known as Chinnamma (more youthful mother) to her supporters, had been a practically perpetual apparatus in Jayalalitha's life, and was regularly observed with the previous boss pastor on open stages.

Never given any formal part by Jayalalitha in the gathering or the state government, Sasikala's part was dependably that of associate and partner.

Yet, investigators say her nearness to control permitted her and her more distant family to use immense impact in the gathering and the administration.

Sasikala's impact over Jayalalitha likewise turned into the wellspring of serious media hypothesis and newspaper chatter.

They likewise confronted defilement allegations. A Karnataka high court arrange in 2015, which cleared them of contribution in a debasement embarrassment, made ready for Jayalalitha's arrival to control after a difficulty in September 2014 when a trial court discovered them liable of defilement.

India's Supreme Court has heard an interest in a similar case, and has saved its decision.