Trust vote: Chaos prevails in TN assembly; House adjourned till 1pm

CHENNAI: Chaos prevailed in the Tamil Nadu assembly after House assembled to take up the vote of confidence motion of the Edappadi K Palaniswami ministry on Saturday. Opposition MLAs and the legislators supporting former chief minister O Panneerselvam demanded secret ballots, but Speaker P Dhanapal insisted on division vote.

The opposition MLAs entered the well of the house demanding secret ballot and they broke chairs and the speaker’s microphone, forcing Dhanapal to adjourn the session till 1pm. Assembly secretary AMP Jamaludeen’s chair was also damaged in the chaos.

Earlier, DMK working president M K Stalin wanted the voting to be postponed.

A total of 230 MLAs were present in the assembly.