Chennai, June 29 -- The over a month long ruling TVK has courted a controversy over the appointment of a Tamil Nadu Special Representative in New Delhi--a Cabinet rank post--drawing ire from various Opposition parties including the DMK, AIADMK and its allies, the BJP and the PMK, and also from the Leftists, who were extending outside support to the government.
Breaking the tradition of rewarding a party loyalist or a trusted bureaucrat with a cabinet-rank post in the national capital, Chief Minister Joseph Vijay's recent appointment of K Venkat Narayana, producer of his swansong movie 'Jana Nayagan', as the Tamil Nadu Government's Special Representative in Delhi has fuelled a major controversy and provoked a conflict-of-interest debate.
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