The acquittal allows her to plan a new political path and also prepare her party for the assembly elections scheduled next year.
Until very late on Saturday night her followers -- mostly cabinet ministers -- camped outside the prison. They were seen holding the prison walls and crying. Despite several attempts by the police to send them away, they refused to budge.
'As she has been sentenced to 4 years in prison, her disqualification period begins after that for 6 years, totaling the next 10 years of her life, which may indicate that her legislative career in politics is over for the time being.'
The AIADMK supremo retained 13 of her ministers, who were in the previous cabinet, besides inducting 17 new faces including four women.
'What we see here is puppetry. The string is with the BJP.' 'All the puppets here are dancing to the direction the BJP pulls the strings.'
A full one year after Jayalalithaa was hospitalised on the night of September 22, 2016, followed by long hospitalisation and death on December 5, Tamil Nadu continues to be rocked by instability and non-governance of every which kind, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Calculated or otherwise, if Azhagiri's firing of the first salvo after Karunanidhi's death does not create some space for him to politico-electorally exploit at a later date, there may not be any space left for him at all, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail plea to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief J Jayalalithaa, who is lodged in a Bangalore jail after her conviction in the disproportionate assets case.
DMK leader MK Stalin is concerned that a no-trust move would force the EPS faction to patch up with not only the OPS group but also the TTV camp and also get the 'Two Leaves' poll symbol unfrozen, which could upset his party's electoral apple cart, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
In a relief to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, the Supreme Court on Monday set aside the Karnataka government's decision to remove Special Public Prosecutor G Bhawani Singh from the disproportionate assets case against
The BJP calculates that simultaneous polls to Parliament and TN assembly could help it, intent as it is on making the state break from its Dravidian past, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalithaa was acquitted on Monday by the Karnataka high court in the 19-year-old disproportionate assets case, a verdict that is sure to put her back in the Tamil Nadu chief minister's seat.
In a blow to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief J Jayalalithaa, the Karnataka high court on Tuesday rejected her bail plea in the disproportionate assets case, saying there was no ground to grant her the relief.
With the Apollo Hospitals chairman saying that she has recovered, the party can go back to business as usual.
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