HIGH DRAMA IN TAMIL NADU POLITICS
we are witnessing now before our very eyes. The
nefarious role of the Mannargudi Mafia was hinted at in an editorial in this
journal once earlier and the current developments have only confirmed those
suspicions. As one among the servile sheeple, the [now ‘acting’]
Chief Minister O. Paneer Selvam also had meekly submitted to and supported the
many moves of raising up Sasikala, the chief female don of the Mafia, to
positions of power inside the ruling AIADMK party and overlooked
the quite obvious undermining of transparency and
honesty leading to suspicious death of Jayalalitha, his mentor and veritable
goddess. However, it seems the short span of independent acting as Chief
Minister coupled with some innate distrust of Sasikala seems to have sown seeds
of discontent and rebellion in his heart and mind and especially his successful
dealing with the Central Government on the need for legalizing Jallikattu and
more so his supporters’ active participation in the novel Jallikattu movement
that shook up the entire State and ultimately made the governments of both the
State and Centre to bow down to the popular agitation, appears to have
inculcated a lot of self-confidence in himself. Moreover, the hasty move by
Sasikala to become the Chief Minister herself, thinking perhaps that thereby
she would be able to avert or at least postpone any adverse verdict by the Apex
Court in the pending appeal against corruption case on Jayalalitha, herself and
others, and making him to resign his post, was on a second thought quite
unpalatable to OPS and he rebelled – per the wisdom in the axiom: “Better late
than never.” This unfolded the high drama with Sasikala virtually confining all her supporter MLAs
in a resort under strict watch and, after the adverse verdict of the
Supreme Court on 14 February and need to go to jail at any cost, appointing a
proxy, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, as her nominee for Chief Minister’s post and
with OPS firmly opposing the same with masses and other parties, including the
opposition DMK, generally applauding his efforts to stall and defeat the
Mannargudi Mafia. Hope OPS, profusely praised for his sincerity, devotion and
honesty by Jayalalitha herself, would finally win but even if defeated in the
race, it is doubtless that he has already gained immense gratitude and applause
of millions of people in this course. §§§
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