States »SoutPosted at: May 9 2021 6:46PM

Senior advocate Shanmugasundaram takes over as AG, TN

Chennai, May 9 (UNI) Senior Advocate and former DMK Rajya
Sabha MP R Shanmugasundaram on Sunday assumed charge
as the new Advocate General of Tamil Nadu.
He is expected to represent the State Government before the First
Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar
Ramamoorthy tomorrow when the suo motu PIL, taken up by the
court to monitor the measures being taken by the government to
fight the second wave of COVID-19, comes up for hearing.
Mr Shanmugasundaram succeeds Mr Vijay Narayan, who had
resigned from the post soon after the DMK regime headed by
M K Stalin assumed office after the party's victory in the Assembly
elections.
A GO issued by Chief Secretary V Irai Anbu said ''in exercise of
the powers conferred by Article 165(1) of the Constitution, Governor
Banwarilal Purohit hereby appoints Mr Shanmugasundaram as the
Advocate General of Tamil Nadu, from the date of his taking charge
vice Vijay Narayan, resigned'', it said.
(ED : PICK UP SUITABLY FROM MS 21 LAW-TN-AG APPOINTED).
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