When it comes to projecting their party leader and former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, nothing seems to deter ruling party cadres. To some extent, a section of the government machinery also appears to echo and share the same sentiments.
While the Attorney General defended the display of Ms. Jayalalithaa’s portrait in government offices when a case relating to this issue came up at the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, the Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable Television Corporation continues to air government propaganda short films wherein she is identified as the Chief Minister
Meanwhile, at a government function held in Kancheepuram on Sunday, a party cadre was seen standing behind the VIPs, holding a portrait of Ms. Jayalalithaa. The event was to mark the inauguration of the Road Safety Week celebrations attended by Animal Husbandry Minister T.K.M. Chinnaiah and Collector V.K. Shanmugam.
Ironically, the photographs displayed at the exhibition on road safety and the placards held aloft by the participants of a road safety awareness rally flagged off by Mr. Chinnaiah contained Ms. Jayalalithaa’s image prominently.
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The rare presence of senior Supreme Court advocates in the Madras High Court Bench in Madurai is invariable related to granite or garnet exporters in the southern districts. After senior counsel Rajeev Dhavan's appearance for PRP Granites in 2012, this year it was the turn of former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium to argue an anticipatory bail application filed by garnet baron S. Vaikundarajan.
Mr. Subramanium waited in the court hall of Justice P.N. Prakash for more than two-and-a-half hours for his case to reach and got only 15 minutes to advance his arguments before the judge retired to his chambers for lunch. After continuing his arguments in the post-lunch session and obtaining favourable orders, he asked the judge, in a lighter vein, if the court was inclined to acquit him honourably. Replying to it in the same vein, Justice Prakash said: “Yes, you are acquitted. But I cannot say honourably or not because of latest judicial pronouncements.”
The defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka’s Presidential elections turned an avowed rationalist and MDMK general secretary Vaiko into a willing votary of Lord of Tirumala. Referring to the Tirupati visit of Mr. Rajapaksa just ahead of the elections, Mr. Vaiko said that despite he being a rationalist, he was inclined to say that Lord Balaji took a virtual Narasimha avatar and “saved the Tamil race from Rajapaksa.” The Lord had brushed aside the former President's prayers for victory and rendered justice to the suffering masses in ensuring the defeat of Mr. Rajapaksa, Mr. Vaiko exclaimed.
