That the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly has been reduced like ADMK General Council meeting where the minions sing paeans for their chief and the chief in turn can get away with whatever she bluffs was more than enough proved on record on April 23 when Ch(eap)ief Minister Jayalalitha justified the filing of defamation cases against leaders of opposition parties and media and delivered a lecture on behaviour in public life.
More than anybody else, the ADMK ministers and legislators would have been taken aghast by her sermons: “In public life, one should naturally behave in a restrained and disciplined manner. If one does not possess these qualities, the cases are filed to ensure they behave in a proper manner….Those who are in public life and those who lead political parties must avoid tongue-lashing. They must be careful about what they speak. If they speak in an unrestrained manner, then they have to face defamation charges”.
Jayalalitha has further said when derogatory remarks were made against her or against her Cabinet members, they could not be dismissed as allegations against an individual. “The AIADMK headed by me has 1.5 crore members. All the 7.28 crore people in Tamil Nadu have faith in me”.
Then came the climax of her ‘sermons’: Jayalalitha said she was in politics like a sage who had no attachment to fruits of her office, as crores of people reposed faith in her and her government.
The ADMK ministers and legislators would have been flabbergasted at their Amma’s sermons on restrained and disciplined behaviour and avoiding tongue-lashing by those in public life, because if they were the norms, violation of which would invite defamation cases by the government, their leader would have never come out of prison on conviction and sentence in cases had only Kalaignar, during his rule, had wanted to file against her for her statements everyday when she was in the opposition.
It is not only now in the Assembly but also in a statement issued on 2.2.2009 that she blatantly lied that she was living like a sage without any attachment to fruits of office, as if she renounced kingdom like Buddha, Mahavir or Ilango Adigal and took up ascetic life like a monk.
Does she think people are fools like her minions in ADMK to believe or at least pretend to believe whatever she says about her. A sage means on who renounces everything earthly. How can a sage exist in politics?
The Tamil weekly in its issue dated 25.11.2009, Jayalalitha’s grandfather, grandmother and mother lived in a place called Melakottai on Bangalore- Mysore Road in a house which is now in a dilapidated condition (the photo graph of the house was also published). That was one of over 50 Iyengar families in that place and her grandfather was a priest in the temple of the pace. The name of her grandmother was Yadhukiri ammal. The village priest’s daughter Sandhya was an actress and her daughter Jayalalitha also took up the profession of her mother and when she was in dire straits during her career, MGR inducted her into politics.
When the ADMK was started in 1972, she was not in it and only after 10 years, on the recommendation of some because of her distress, she was inducted in the party by MGR. What were all the manoeuvres made by this woman, claiming to have no attachment for any office, to capture posts?
She was member of Nutritious Meals committee in 1982, Propaganda Secretary of the party in 1983, Rajya Sabha member in 1984. When MGR passed away in 1987, she split the ADMK to capture leadership. Even during his life time she sent letter in her handwriting to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi complaining about MGR and telling that he was physically and mentally incapacitated and wanted the PM to remove him from the office of CM and appoint her in that office.
How did she ‘capture’ the leadership of ADMK? She used some leaders, whom she got rid of later, to forcefully enter into ADMK headquarters on Lloyds Road sieze minutes book on which they wrote that she was elected as the general secretary of the party and obtained signatures- it is another matter that none of signatories to it are in ADMK now. Using their resources and influence she captured party leadership and later eased them out.
She has so far not disputed the claim of Sasikala’s husband M.Natarajan claiming to have resorted to back-room manoeuvres to get the two factions of ADMK united and getting back the election symbol of two leaves. Now that Natarajan is also a persona non grata for her.
But for the sympathy wave following Rajiv Gandhi assassination, Jayalalitha would have never become the CM of the state in 1991 and in all possibilities she would have abandoned political life and settled down in Hyderabad.
This ‘sage’ without any attachment to material life, there was no property whatsoever in 1990. But the value of her assets shown on returns was Rs.1.89 crore in 1991, Rs.2.89 crore in 1992, Rs.5.82 crore in 1993, Rs.21 crore in 1994, Rs.38 crore in 1995 and Rs.66.45 crore as on 30.4.1996. Announcing that she would get only one rupee as salary for the office of CM, how did this ‘sage’ with no attachment to anything amassed wealth of Rs.66 crore in five years? That disproportionate assets case is on trial for 16 years now and why did this ‘sage’ if she was not guilty prolong the case for so many years castigated even by the Supreme Court saying, “You (Jayalalitha) are making mockery of judicial process. How long can you drag the proceeding”?
What all were this ‘sage’ using for her day-to-day life? 98 wrist watches, 398 pairs of foot wears, 914 silk sarees, luxury bus valued at Rs.32.40 lakhs and jewels of 86,26,41,228 and 294 varieties worth Rs.4.95 crore. Why did a ‘sage’ require so much luxury? When she was the CM in 1992-93 she celebrated her birth day in a grand manner. Without depositing to the government she deposited 89 bank drafts for Rs.Two crore and cash of Rs.15 lakhs into her personal account. Moreover she deposited foreign drafts worth Rs.3.12 crore into her personal account without knowing who had sent them.
Was it an act of a sage to adopt a 30-year old Sudhakaran as foster son and celebrating his wedding like that of a Prince spending a whopping sum of Rs.100 crore? Were they acts of a sage to acquire TANSI land of the government in Guindy industrial estate at very cheap price against rules, defending her action in the lower court as proper and not misuse of power, then telling the higher court that the signatures on the purchase deeds were not hers to save her skin and subsequently making a somersault and undertaking to return the land and surrender?
Are the posh bungalows in Poes Garden and Siruthavur and palatial mansion in Kodanad with fully air-conditioned and luxurious interiors, leaf huts (parnasalai) occupied by sages?
If she had no attachment to fruits of her office, why did she file nominations from four constituencies knowing pretty well that it was against electoral rules and that she was disqualified from contesting in election following conviction by the High Court in TANSI land case? Why did she misused the then Governor and unconstitutionally get sworn-in as CM after the elections when her nominations themselves were rejected, only to be unseated by the Supreme Court?
Is it not because of her avaricious dream of becoming the Prime Minister of the country that she had directed her party minions and apologists to project her as the future PM and propagate it? Was it not of that dream that she and her aide Sasikala looked for a house in Delhi in 1999 and then got dejected?
Leave alone acts of political vengeance, there are so many recorded acts of personal vengeance of this ‘sage’ some of which are her long time family friend and auditor Rajasekaran gong into her Poes Garden residence hale and healthy and running out of it profusely bleeding on his face and all over the body and foisting a case against one Sridhar and getting imprisonment after she came to power in 1991 for him for contesting against her in Bargur Constituency after he was denied seat for Theni constituency in 1989 elections in spite of remitting a few lakhs. (the narcotic case against her former foster son is pending for judgment).
Jayalalitha should have temerity to lecture on restrained and disciplined behaviour and avoiding tongue-lashing by those in public life. If at all defamation cases have to be filed against any person in political arena of Tamil Nadu, it is only against Jayalalitha that hundreds of such cased can be filed. Has she ever spoken in a decent and cultured manner about any leader in her political life? She did not spare even her political mentor and senior leaders of her party when she tongue-lashed them in indecent epithets.
The epithet she used and still using for Kalaignar could not be published by dailies and periodicals maitaining some standards.
She questioned the loyalty of Sonia Gandhi to her husband, called her a foreigner and political half-bake. When Rajiv Gandhi was the PM she said he was irresponsible and went to sleep by 10pm. About P.V.Narasimha Rao, she said he was non-functional and had generation gap with her. She accused Governor Channa Reddy of misbehaving with her.
She accused late G.K.Moopanar of having a role in Rajiv Gandhi assassination, charged V.N.Janakiammal of murdering her husband MGR by poisoning buttermilk.
She said BJP leader L.K.ADvani suffered from selective amnesia, Vajpayee of failing to maintain neutrality, called Chandrababu Naidu as a fraudster and sending thieves from his state to TN, branded Communists of street pipe brawling clowns and inventors of tin to make hundis.
She said DMDK leader Vijayakanth was attending Assembly in drunken condition, called PMK leader Ramadoss as tree cutter, S.R.Balasubramaniam as empty asafoetida box and even blamed judges of higher courts speaking as they please and absudities and making needless observations, they had likes and dislikes etc.,
When a woman minister Valarmathi spoke in the Assembly in a distasteful and degenerated manner and ridiculously referred to the assassinated body of Rajiv Gandhi lying on the ground, Jayalalitha relished her speech.
Now Vijayakanth had told reporters that Kalaignar was magnanimous during his rule without filing defamation cases against her for all the obscene and derogatory statements she was issuing against him.
Jayalalitha speaks Vedanta telling those in public life and leading political parties should behave in a restrained and disciplined manner and avoid tong-lashing and if they did not these defamation cases were filed to bring them to order. But she allowed Nanjil Sampath of MDMK who was ‘renown’ for obscene and derogatory speeches to join ADMK and withdrew all defamation cases filed against him by her regime and also presented him an Innova car and made him deputy propaganda secretary of her party.
That is the motive of her regime filing defamation cases against opposition party leaders and functionaries and the media- either silence them or make them surrender to her. r
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