K R Ramasamy, Congress MLA from Karaikudi, was today named the party's legislature party leader and Vilavancode legislator S Vijayadharani will be the whip in the newly constituted Tamil Nadu Assembly.
"In deference to the views of the party MLAs, K R Ramasamy will be the Congress Legislature Party leader and Vijayadharani our whip," Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president E V K S Elangovan said.
"We will continue to work with DMK and function as a constructive opposition party," he told reporters.
Ramasamy won from Karaikudi by polling 93,419 votes defeating his AIADMK rival Karpagam Ilango who got 75,136 votes. Vijayadharani was re-elected from Vilavancode by a margin of over 30,000 votes.
