While Mr. Veerappan backed MGRs widow, Janaki Ramachandran to lead the party and the government, the split in the AIADMK then quickly surfaced, with the emergence of two distinct factions, centred on Mrs. Janaki and the charismatic Ms. Jayalalithaa.
And once Mrs. Janaki Ramachandran was elected as leader of the AIADMK legislature party on January 7, 1988 the Dr Nedunchezhiyan-led interim cabinet resigned on the forenoon that day and Mr. Khurana lost no time in appointing a new Ministry with effect from the same day. It was an 8-member Cabinet
Nonetheless, the automatic transition that was seen in Mrs Janaki Ramachandrans case in January 1988 was not to be seen in February 2017 vis--vis Sasikala, amid mounting protests both in social media and by opposition parties to the latter becoming CM.
However, in 1988, a motion expressing confidence in the Janaki Ramachandran ministry, moved in the House on January 28 by Mr Veerappan then, was carried after unprecedented violence, leading to dissolution of the eighth Assembly and imposition of Presidents rule in Tamil Nadu on January 30, 1988.
