AIADMK marks 100 days in office

Chennai, Aug 31 (PTI) As AIADMK, led by Jayalalithaa,completed 100 days in office today, Tamil Nadu Assembly wasdecked up with choicest flowers of different hues andvarieties to mark the occasion. When Chief Minister Jayalalithaa arrived in the House,she was given a rousing welcome by her party members,including ministers, who stood up and thumped deskscontinuously. However, soon after she arrived, no DMK member couldbe seen in their benches as they went out in batches. Hailing the "stable governance and sustained growth,"of the AIADMK regime, the state government had also givenadvertisements in newspapers on its welfare schemes and otherinitiatives. The entire House, including visitors’ gallery, wasdecorated with flowers. Portraits of leaders including MahatmaGandhi, former chief ministers Rajaji, Kamaraj, C N Annaduraiand saint poet Thiruvalluvar were adorned with life-sizegarlands. Breaking a decades-old jinx, AIADMK won a successiveterm in the May 16 assembly elections and Jayalalithaa wassworn in for the sixth time as the Chief Minister on May 23. Ministers in their addresses mentioned the AIADMK’s100 days in office and its achievements and welfare schemessteered by Jayalalithaa. PTI VGN NSDDK