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Chennai: The legislature party meeting of the main Opposition AIADMK will be held here on 14 June to elect the Deputy leader in the Assembly and the Party Whip ahead of the Assembly session beginning on 21 June. The earlier meeting of MLAs held last month had elected former Chief Minister and AIADMK joint coordinator Edappadi K Palaniswami as their legislature party leader and also as the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly. Meanwhile in a joint statement here Thursday AIADMK coordinator and former CM O Panneerselvam and Palaniswami said the MLAs meeting would be held at party headquarters at 12 noon on 14 June. Party sources said the MLAs meeting was being held to elect the deputy leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly and the Party Whip besides office-bearers of the legislature party. Senior AIADMK leader and former Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar has submitted petition to Tamilnadu DGP J K Tripathy seeking permission for holding the meeting in view of the pandemic induced lockdown..