Amma rule will continue till 2021, reiterates Jayakumar

He expressed confidence that the “Amma government”, headed by Edappadi K Palanisamy, will not only complete its term till 2021, but will also retain power in the Assembly elections due that year. 

The next Assembly polls will take place in Tamil Nadu “only in 2021,” said Jayakumar. The AIADMK (Amma) faction on Saturday described as “opportunism” the demand of rival O Panneerselvam camp for a CBI probe into former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s death as a precondition for merger talks.

Jayakumar said such “politics of opportunism” will not succeed and questioned why Panneerselvam had not “taken action” in this regard when he was the chief minister for 75 days, following Jayalalithaa’s death.