Tamil Nadu reacts to Palaniswami's victory with shock, dismay
- E K Palaniswami became the CM after winning the trust vote in Tamil Nadu assembly.
- Soon after, DMK leader MK Stalin went on strike at the Marina Beach against the floor test.
- MK Stalin was detained by police.
The Tamil Nadu’s political stand-off over the position of Chief Minister comes to an end with Edappadi K Palanisamy winning the floor test on the state assembly. By winning 122 votes, Sasikala Natarajan’s choice Palanisamy won over his opposition, and amidst high-octane drama, he became the CM.
However in a democracy, he is not the popularly desired candidate, and tweets are coming in to show the popular sentiment of people.
Here are a couple of tweet reactions:
There you go. Seems like we have another CM. Jai de-mockcrazy
— Kamal Haasan (@ikamalhaasan) February 18, 2017
Give #Sasikala a laptop in jail. Save transport cost (our money) for #EKP and his gang for 4 years. Time to put more salt in our food #TN
— Siddharth (@Actor_Siddharth) February 18, 2017
Today Tamil people lost n self interests won #EKP #OPSForCM
— Sai Krishna (@hodude81) February 18, 2017
77 million>122. Let's not forget this fateful day when the MLAs come back to us 4 years later. #EKP #Sasikala #TN #AIADMK #EPSvsOPS #DMK
— Deeptha Vivekanand (@everafterlearn) February 18, 2017
"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny." All three coming together in TN 😫 #floortest #tn
— Sankar Madhavan (@SankarM) February 18, 2017
Is it legal to hold floor test while the Opposition party is absent in the house? #OPS #TN @mkstalin
— Tamilnadu Anon (@TamilnaduAnon) February 18, 2017
If Drinkers and all rules #tn means .. Then the #TN people's life will be a big question mark? .... This is going to be a worst govt for #TN
— Ram Kumar (@Ramkumar241297) February 18, 2017
Enna youngsters ready to #marina #dissolvetngovt we need reelection in #TN
— சந்தோஷ் சரவன்.ல (@Sans3789) February 18, 2017
People of #TN lost,Mannargudi-mafia won.Common people, plz protect ur flats/ house properties/ agricultural lands.Anytime anything can hapn
— Christy Doll (@ChristyDollcute) February 18, 2017
Amqzing sketch 👌👌👌
— Aarohi Shergil (@AarohiShergil) February 16, 2017
This one pic is enough to describe the present political scenario of #TnPolitics #Palanisamy #Sasikala pic.twitter.com/k2Uh8rw66H
Seven Crore people will is against #122MLAs will.. Still they win... Where is OF THE PEOPLE in democracy comes? #DISSOLVETNGOVT #TnPolitics
— Sridharan Ramaswamy (@rsridhar6) February 18, 2017
Hereafter the Conditions of 122 MLAs in their districts.Won the #voteofconfidence but lost the ppls Confidence😠#DissolveTNgovt #TnPolitics
— shweta roy (@shweraroy) February 18, 2017
It seems the people of Tamil Nadu are not at all happy with what happened at the Tamil Nadu assembly today.