Long live the Queen
The swearing-in ceremony took place at 11 am at Madras University, which was packed with the who's who of the state, including superstar Rajnikanth. Amma returns as CM of TN. Paneerselvalam returns to Amma's feet, rolling over with gratitude. All her MLA's with folded hands prostrate before Amma.
Surprisingly, It took less than 15 minutes to elect J Jayalalithaa as its leader and in the hurry they even cut short the national anthem. The whole chennai is plastered with gigantic hoarding's bearing Amm's bearing visage.
In early days , When Jayalalithaa became chief minister for the first time in 1991, her image shifted from the woman who was MGR’s reverential understudy to a leader in her own right. She became Amma, a maternal figure who is the protector of the Tamil race. She was depicted as Lakshmi or Meenakshi or even the Madonna. Once again she proved that she is still the queen. It may be blind fold justice who ignored the 34,000 pages of evidence and 900 odd page acquittal order . High Courts funded by taxpayers money acquit her and she is again the Protector
According to sources , Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up Tamil Nadu heavyweight Jayalalithaa to congratulate her on her acquittal in the disproportionate assets case. The Prime Minister's election campaign focused on anti-corruption, so the support for Jayalalithaa, who has been forced to quit as Chief Minister twice over allegations of graft, may seem at odds with that stand.
But even Subramanian Swamy, who had filed the petition against Jayalalithaa in court, appeared unusually mellow, stating, "Such decisions by court arise and many political figures have benefited from it in the past."
So what's really brewing?