Chennai, May 11 -- Former Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin has been unimously elected as the leader of the DMK Legislature Party (LP) and would be functioning as the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
Son of former Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin, who would not be present in the august House for the first time in three decades following his unfortunate defeat in his strong Kolathur constituency from where he had sought re-election for a fourth successive term in the April 23 elections, Mr Udhayanidhi, re-elected for a second term from Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni seat in Chennai city, was elected as the LP leader at a meeting of the newly-elected MLAs held a couple of days back following which he would...