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The crisis over succession in Tamil Nadu got more intense with more people throwing their weight behind O Panneerselvam, delivering blow to Sasikala Natarajan's chief ministerial ambitions.

International Business Times, India, gives you the updates from the state's politics:

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9.18 pm IST MLAs at resort in touch with me, sharing their ordeal

9.16 pm IST Deepa (Jayalalithaa's niece) was not allowed to even see Amma's body? Why?

9.07 pm IST AIADMK MLA Parthiban extends support to Panneerselvam

8.57 pm IST Shedding crocodile tears, passing new remarks every day is not going to help. Will prove everything in assembly: #Panneerselvam on #Sasikala

8.54 pm IST Only Amma stood by me all these years. Telling this for the 1st time, I was subjected to harassment and torture all these years:

8.50 pm IST I have a question. Yesterday Sasikala went to Kuvathur (where MLAs are staying at Golden Bay resort). Why did she go?

8.48 pm IST: Panneerselvam's appeal to 'hostage' MLAs, be true to your conscience

8.47 pm IST Even today many party MLAs are contacting me and telling, for each MLA there are four 'gundas' sitting: Panneerselvam

8.41 pm IST: That day I took a pledge, that I will safeguard the organisation she has left behind, till my last breath: Sasikala breaks down

8.40 pm IST After becoming Gen secy,I went to Amma's memorial but couldn't get out of there,magnetic power didn't let me go away

8.31 pm IST: We must pledge for our victory, after which we will visit Amma's memorial and dedicate it to her: Sasikala

8.30 pm IST I will achieve everything if you all stand firmly behind me, I wont move away, I will be firm as I have been with 'Amma': Sasikala

8.28 pm IST: Portrait of Amma has to be installed in state assembly to show gratitude. Some people with us don't want it to happen, says Sasikala

8.21 pm IST Panneerselvam who was a minister for so long, is today all out to destroy. It is same as hitting your eye with your own finger: Sasikala

8.18 pm IST Sasikala breaks down while addressing party workers at the resort

7.49 pm IST Party workers, and forces now opposing us will not succeed in their attempts, won't let it happen, says Sasikala

7.46 pm IST Let it come, I will see: VK Sasikala when asked about the pending verdict in DA Case

7.39 pm IST MLAs in the resort on their own will, we are all united, says Sasikala

7.36 pm IST We havent herded party MLAs here, we're one big happy family. People are spreading canards against me, Sasikala after meeting the MLAs says

6.32 pm IST: Meeting between #VKSasikala and MLAs begins at Golden Bay resort

6.30 pm IST O Pannerselvam aide Maitreyan meets the Governor

6.28 pm IST The governor should give his verdict in a day or two, says Pon Radhakrishnan, Union Minister

6.18 pm IST O. Panneerselvam,  "Amma's only political heir" - posters put up outside OPS' residence in Chennai

6.03 pm IST Police force deployment at Raj Bhavan in Chennai

5.35 pm IST  Supporters performed 'Aarti' in front of VK Sasikala when she was en route to Kuvathur's Golden Bay resort

5.17 pm IST Panneerselvam meets supporters at his residence in Chennai

5.15 pm IST I have extensively worked with Panneerselvam, he is a very nice man. Under his leadership, one can pop his collar and walk: Manobala

5.12 pm IST Chennai: Tamil director, producer and actor Manobala extends support to Panneerselvam

4.39 pm IST 34 years she was with her. How is it possible? Blind allegation that Sasikala was behind death of Jayalalithaa: Jayalalithaa's nurse in 2001

4.30 pm IST Chinamma always used to see to it that political pressure and tensions do not even touch Jayalalithaa, took everything on her : R Piramila

4.29 pm IST Reports floating that Chinamma has done something to Periamma? Totally unacceptable, nothing of this sort can happen between them: R Piramila

4.24 pm IST Chinamma was a close companion of Periamma (Jayalalithaa), both shared a healthy relationship: R Piramila Visagan (Jayalalithaa's nurse in 2001)

4.14 pm IST We believe in democracy, all MLAs are with me, will interact with them. You all know why all MPs are going to the other side, says Sasikala

4.13 pm IST Very difficult for a woman to be in politics, have not experienced it just now, but earlier too with Amma: VK Sasikala

3: 39 pm IST: Sasikala has left for Golden Bay resort.

3.30 pm IST: Sasikala rubbishes rumours that she had written a letter to the governor threatening about committing suicide. She said it is a fake letter, adding this is a tactic of targetting women politicians.

3.20 pm IST: Sasikala expected to meet law-makers at at the resort where they have been kep.

2.20 pm IST: K Pandiarajan, Tamil Nadu's education minister metets AIADMK MLA from Mylapore, R Nataraj.

2:06 pm IST: A total of 10 MPs (eight of them from Lok Sabha) have joined the camp of Panneerselvam till now.

2.05 pm IST: AIADMK MP R Vaithiligam said Sasikala is waiting for the governor's response and will announce the next step if nothing happens by the end of Sunday.

1.40 pm IST: More support pour in for Panneerselvam. AIADMK MPs R Lakshmanan & S Rajendran meet him and extend their support. Earlier in the day, the man was felicitated by his supporters at his residence in Chennai.

1.10 pm IST: Former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee speaks out on TN crisis. Revealing that Governor CV Rao had spoken to him on the matter, Sorabjee said the governor is within his limits to defer the swearing-in but can't wait for too long. He also said it was wrong to target the governor for delaying the government formation.

1:05 pm IST: TN Governor Rao is perhaps not just taking into account the numbers while trying to arrive at a decision on the state's ongoing political crisis. According to reports, the governor is waiting for the Supreme Court's impending verdict on the DA case, likely to come out on Monday.

12.45 pm IST: Subramanian Swamy speaks out on Tamil Nadu deadlock, says the governor must decide the CM issue by Monday or otherwise a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution can be filed charging abetment of horse trading.

12.35 pm IST: DMK's working president MK Stalin to chair high-level meeting on Monday (Feb 13).

12. 02 pm IST: After O Pannneerselvam garners considerable support, it's time for the Sasikala camp to hit back. Her supporters shout anti-OPS slogans outside Poes Gardens, the residence of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

11.30 am IST: Former AIADMK MP Ramarajan extends support to Panneerselvam.

11.22 am IST: "Where are our MLAs? Work in our constituencies are stuck." Angry people lodge police complaints against restricting MLAs in a resort saying it is disrupting the work in their constituencies. 

11:15 am IST: Tamil Nadu farmers' body lodges complaint, saying two MLAs have gone missing.

11.20 am IST: Sasikala hits out at heavyweight leaders who switched sides to Panneerselvam; calls them "traitors".

11 am IST: More support for OPS: AIADMK MPs B Senguttuvan and J Jeyasingh extend support to Panneerselvam; meet him at his residence. Disadvantage Sasikala.

10.45 am IST: Sasikala may protest against the delay in government formation in Tamil Nadu "in another form" today.

10.10 am IST: Police complaint filed accusing Sasikala's family of hiding minister Duraikannu.

9.55 am IST: Relatives of AIADMK's founder MG Ramachandran said the party, which had been built on strong foundations, has found itself in a sorry state now.

9.50 am IST: Tamil Nadu's Agriculture Minister R Duraikannu has reportedly gone missing, reports India Today.

9.40 am IST: While the AIADMK fights among itself over Jayalalithaa's succession, PMK trends on Twitter under the hashtag #WhyIAMWithPMK, highlighting the policies of the party of former Union health minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss.

8.30 am IST: Sasikala accused TN Governor C Vidyasagar Rao on Saturday night of deliberately delaying things to create a rift. "Wait and watch," she said.

Political observers said the aide of the late chief minister was turning increasingly impatient after five more people, including Education Minister M Pandiarajan, left her camp and joined that of Panneerselvam.

8.10 am IST: O Panneerselvam gains a crucial advantage over Sasikala on Saturday (Feb 11) by garnering an overwhelming support in his bid to transform the residence of the late J Jayalalithaa as a memorial.

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