From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Jun 20: Jailed AIADMK General Secretary Sasikala, better known as ‘’Chinnamma,’’ will take a final decision on how the party will vote in the presidential election, party’s Deputy General Secretary TT V Dinakaran said in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

"It will be decided by Chinnamma," Dinakaran told reporters after meeting her in jail when he was asked which way the party MPs and MLAs would vote in the July 17 election.

Both the factions of AIADMK are widely expected to vote with the BJP for the NDA government.

Dinakaran and Sasikala, who is the party General Secretary, are said to have been kept out of the affairs of the party reportedly at the instance of the ruling BJP in the wake of the split after the revolt by former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam.

Meanwhile, the BJP candidate Ram NathKovind has submitted his resignation as governor of Bihar and is expected to file his nomination papers on June 23.