Chennai: A day after the Supreme Court upheld V.K. Sasikala’s conviction in a disproportionate assets case, the AIADMK general secretary is on her way to surrender before the Bengaluru trial court which has been shifted to a jail on the city’s outskirts.

While the Supreme Court verdict effectively ended Sasikala’s own claim to Tamil Nadu’s chief minister post, Sasikala designated Edapadi K. Palanisamy as the chief-minister designate yesterday, and expelled rebels led by O. Panneerselvam from the party. A bid to get more time to surrender came to naught as the Supreme Court turned down her plea on Wednesday.

Meanwhile , the battle with rebel CM O. Panneerselvam continues with the ball in the court of governor Ch Vidayasagar Rao after Palanisamy staked claim to form the government.

Here are the latest updates from the ongoing political crisis in Tamil Nadu:

■ DMK Working President M K Stalin today claimed a government led by either O Panneerselvam or any AIADMK nominee would not be stable and could lead to elections to the state assembly even before local body polls, due already. Addressing party workers at a meeting here, he said the present government headed by caretaker Chief Minister Panneerselvam was only an interim arrangement. (PTI)

Governor Vidyasagar Rao meets O. Panneerselvam and his supporters

■ Sasikala’s relatives V N Sudhakaran and Elavarasi, whose conviction by the trial court in Bengaluru had been upheld by the Supreme Court, also surrendered. Four cars in the cavalcade of Sasikala were damaged soon after it arrived near the court premises, police said, adding, it was not immediately known who did it. (PTI)

■ Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the AIADMK tussle is the internal issue of the ruling party in Tamil Nadu and the governor will decide soon on government formation as per the Constitution

■ Sasikala sent to jail by Bengaluru court. (PTI) All the court formalities are now over and Sasikala has been lodged in the jail. (CNN-News18). She has been assigned the number 10711.

■ Sasikala will not be given any VIP treatment. There is no AC room for her and she is reportedly lodged with two more women inmates. Her request for the home-cooked food too has been turned down. (CNN-News18)

■ Four cars in Sasikala’s convoy damaged in vandalism near central jail: Police. (PTI)

■ Sasikala surrenders before the special court at Bengaluru central jail.

■ Sasikala arrives at Bengaluru central jail (also called Bangalore Central Jail and Parappana Agrahara Central Prison). Her husband Natarajan had reached the Parappana Agrahara jail before her, along with the Lok Sabha deputy speaker M. Thambidurai. She has requested for the barracks next to the one where the late CM Jayalalithaa was lodged, previously. (CNN-News18)

■ Police has given the MLAs time till 3pm to vacate the resort where they have been holed up since last week. (CNN-News18)

■ Sasikala, Edapadi K. Palanisamy booked by police for alleged detention of AIADMK legislators at resort near Chennai on complaint from rival camp MLA. (PTI)

■ TTV Dhinakaran appointment is unacceptable, says AIADMK organisation secretary Karuppaswamy and resigns from his post. (CNN-News18)

■ Sasikala’s nephew TTV Dhinakaran appointed as Deputy General Secretary of AIADMK just minutes after he was re-inducted into the party. (CNN-News18)

■ Sasikala visits MGR Memorial House in T. Nagar, Chennai before heading to Bengaluru Jail. (CNN-News18)

■ Karnataka High Court Registrar accepts Bengaluru City Police request. Court number 48 will be temporarily shifted to jail for a day. (CNN-News18)

■ Sasikala turns emotional at Jayalalithaa’s memorial. (PTI)

■ Sasikala loyalist K. A. Sengottaiyan says he is hopeful E. Palanisamy will be invited by governor to form government. AIADMK members are united, says Sengottaiyan. (PTI)

■ Sasikala leaves for Bengaluru to surrender in court. Sasikala leaves Poes Garden residence in car; She will make a stop-over at Jayalalithaa memorial: AIADMK sources. (PTI)

View Full Image AIADMK general secretary V.K. Sasikala pays her respects at the memorial for former state CM J. Jayalalithaa in Chennai on Wednesday, before leaving to surrender to authorities, following a Supreme Court ruling. Photo: AFP

■ Sasikala’s lawyer Kulashekharan has requested Bengaluru court not to issue arrest warrant against her. Says she will surrender by evening. (CNN-News18)

■ Subramanyam Swamy: “The efforts to defect MLA’s from Sasikala camp isn’t happening. Governor hasn’t been able to perform its duties don’t know on whose advice but bad advice. Now he should call in Edappadi K. Palanisamy to form the govt. Efforts to use Panneesselvam and topple the AIADMK govt in TN has now failed." (CNN-News18)

■ SC refuses to entertain a plea of Sasikala seeking time to surrender for serving jail term in disproportionate assets case. We do not intend to pass any order on this. We are not going to change anything in the judgement, said the apex court. Sasikala wanted some time to surrender to manage her affairs before going to jail, says her advocate K. T. S. Tulsi. (PTI)

■ Sasikala is expected to fly to Bengaluru on Wednesday and surrender at the trial court as per the SC order.

■ One of the legal options available to Sasikala is a review petition that can be filed before the apex court in case of an apparent error in the judgment.

■ Sasikala will be lodged in the Parappana Agrahara, which has over 4,000 inmates. According to a senior police official, no special treatment will be given unless there is a court order based on health grounds of the convict. The jail does not have a special cell to house high-profile inmates.

In September 2014, the then Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalitha stayed in the dispensary ward of the jail after three beds were removed to make room for her.

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