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After 7 years, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief J Jayalalithaa has made a spectacular comeback in Tamil Nadu, thanks to A. Raja and his 2G scam. The issue of corruption has played its role the latest state assembly elections. It has badly hurt the DMK in Tamil Nadu. 2G scam, the mother of all scams has spoiled the image of the party’s First Family. This time AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa came out with big triumph in the state assembly elections. The AIADMK-led alliance got 196 seats out of the state’s 234 constituencies and stunned DMK and its allies were set to get only 36 seats. Karunanidhi also lost his seat. I think, people of Tamil Nadu have given him a proper rest. After the spectacular results, Jayalalitha said its a victory for democracy, its a victory of the people.
About J. Jayalalithaa ::
She is the general secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), a Dravidian party. She is called Amma by her followers. She was a film actress in Tamil and Telugu cinema before entering politics. After completing successful 16 years in south Indian film industry, she joined the AIADMK and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1988. Her association with politics grew from her association with the Late M. G. Ramachandran (popularly known as M.G.R in TamilNadu).
After M.G.R’s death, she became his successor in the party and won the elections to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly in 1989. Incidentally she became the first woman to be elected Leader of the Opposition. In 1991, following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, just days before the elections, her alliance with the Indian National Congress paid off as a sympathy wave propelled the coalition to a massive victory. She was re-elected to the legislative assembly and became the first elected woman chief minister of Tamil Nadu, serving the full tenure (24 June 1991 – 12 May 1996).
Due to an anti-incumbency wave, and several allegations of corruption and malfeasance against her and her ministers, she lost power to the D.M.K in 1996, in a landslide defeat. However, she returned to power with a huge majority in the 2001 elections. In the last assembly elections held in 2006, her party had to relinquish power to the DMK government.
The election results have once again proved that nothing is permanent in Indian politics, the winners of all states must understand that people want good standard of living, development and employment. So politicians must realised that now they have to work for the people of their states and that work will give them guarantee of next term.
