Chennai news Live Updates, October 9, 2022: DMK stalwart and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin was unanimously elected as party president at the party’s general council meeting held here on Sunday. In the newly constituted general council, which held its meeting here, the DMK declared Stalin as elected unopposed to the top party post. Party veterans Duraimurugan and T R Baalu were unanimously elected as general secretary and treasurer respectively.
The ruling DMK on Saturday mocked AIADMK leader K Palaniswami for claiming that no major projects were initiated by the Tamil Nadu government and listed implementation of a slew of new welfare schemes including the breakfast plan for government school students. Dismissing Palaniswami’s refrain as “generic gibberish”, the ruling party organ ‘Murasoli’ listed the new schemes. Palaniswami had said that no major projects were launched by the DMK government and only those initiated during the AIADMK regime were being inaugurated.
In other news, the Tamil Nadu government promulgated an ordinance to prohibit online gambling and regulate online games in the State and said an online gaming authority will be established to exercise powers conferred by this Ordinance. A gazette notification issued by the government on October 3 and the Ordinance promulgated by Governor R N Ravi on October 1, said the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of online gambling and regulation of online games Ordinance, 2022, will come into force on the date notified by the government.
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