Immediately after assuming charge as AIADMK’s General Secretary former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s associate Sasikala Natarajan has started intense moves seeking to elevate further as Chief Minister of the state. In a strategic move to bring immense pressure on the Chief Minister O Panneerselvam to step down from the office so that to give way for her, her supporters are raising the tag of `dual power structure’.

Many leaders are coming out in queue putting forth the argument that dual power structure won’t work with regional political parties, particularly in Dravidian politics, in delivering their promises to the people.

The strong plea to make her as Chief Minister came from party’s one of veteran leader and Lok Sabha Deputy Leader M Thambidurai, who was strong claimant to become Chief Minister after Jayalalithaa’s death. He asserted yesterday that Sasikala should be made as Chief Minister on the plea that `the leadership of the government and leadership should be should be one’.

In support of his plea, Thambidurai said that “the unfinished tasks of the party and the government, as expected by Amma, will be completed only when the leadership of the party and the leadership of the government are in the hand of one person.”

Minutes after his statement, Minister for Forests, Dindigul C Sreenivasan, the number two in the Cabinet, also raised his voice in support of this demand offering to quit as MLA of his Dindigul Assembly constituency so that Sasikala could be elected from there.

Earlier, soon after she assumed charge of the party General Secretary, Revenue Minister R B Udayakumar said she should be made as Chief Minister immediately. It seems all these tactic statements are being issues only to put pressure on the Chief Minister. Party spokesperson S Ponnaiyan repeatedly asked for Sasikala to become the new CM, saying that it was only natural in Dravidian parties that the leader is in charge of both the party and the state.