Opening her third innings in Dravidian heartland, J Jayalalithaa, will be sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister on Monday. She will take oath as chief minister at noon on Monday at the University of Madras Centenary Building.
?My first priority is to put the state?s economy back on rail. The state?s economy has been totally derailed and there has been a lot of regression during the last five years. It is almost as if like having gone back to dark ages. We have to restore law and order in state on a priority basis,? Jayalalithaa told reporters, emerging out of the meeting with Governor.
She was highly critical about the ?economic status? of the state in her first reaction post results where in she had said that even global financial institutions like World Bank, Asian Development Bank and even Planning Commission had written off the state and she has to rebuild it.
Armed with the letter of party legislators electing her as their leader, Jayalalithaa met Barnala at the Raj Bhavan and staked her claim to form the government.
A Raj Bhavan release said Barnala had asked Jayalalithaa to form the ministry at the earliest. Earlier in the day, she was elected unanimously leader of the AIADMK legislature party at a meeting of newly elected MLAs held at the party headquarters here.
Taking a serious view of the sorry state of economic affais in the state, she said the state had to be brought back to the path of growth, development and prosperity.
Describing as ?perennial,? the acute power shortage situation, she said all issues would be addressed one by one including safety and security, promising that law and order would be back on track.
It is learnt that she is still working on the the size and structure of the council of ministers.