While, on one hand, the ADMK members including the state ministers had remembered and celebrated the 72nd birth anniversary of former Chief Minister and party's chief Jayalalithaa across the state, on the other hand, the special committee that probes her death has granted with extension for the seventh time.

On Monday, the party leaders assembled in the party's headquarters in Chennai and took part in various events that were organized to mark her birth anniversary. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and successor of Jayalalithaa Edappadi Palaniswami had paid his respects to the latter at her residence in Poes Garden, Chennai and on the evening hours of Monday, the committee that has been headed by former Justice of Madras High court has received its seventh extension in the time span of three years.

The then Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was admitted to Apollo Hospitals in Chennai in September 2016, about four months after winning re-election in 2016 legislative assembly polls. She was hospitalized for about 75 days and these days had gone with uncertain and aberrant speculations and developments across and beyond the state and in December 2016, she passed away at the age 68 and her death had spurred up several allegations against her closest aide Sasikala, who was at the hospital during the entire course of the treatment. In February 2017, at the high time when Sasikala was eyeing to become the next Chief Minister, O Pannerselvam, the current deputy chief minister, had revolted and cracked down the party into two camps and fiercely criticized the elevation of Sasikala as party's leader.

After Sasikala was sent to jail with the connection to the Disproportionate Assets case, O Pannerselvam had lowered his revolt and merged with the party and one of the main conditions he tabled to keep his support is to form a committee to probe the death of Jayalalithaa and after the merger, Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami, who was an interim at that time, ordered to install the special committee headed by former Justice Arumughaswamy and it was formed on August 2017.

Within three years since the formation, it was given with the seventh extension on Monday and the commission was on the limelight at the initial stage after it inquired various stakeholders including Sasikala's camp, the ruling party members, and the Apollo Hospitals and currently, the committee is functioning in a backtracking pace towards the reason for what it has been installed. After the formation, the committee was given a timeline of three months to complete its investigation and the current extension shows that it wouldn't be the last one.