HC To Govt.: Drop Plan To Convert Jaya's House Into A Memorial

- Mohamed Imranullah S.

Justice N. Kirubakaran of the Madras High Court on Monday questioned the necessity of spending a large amount of public money to convert former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s Poes Garden residence ‘Veda Nilayam’ into a memorial, especially when the State was dependent on loans to execute many public welfare projects.

If the fact that Jayalalithaa resided in that house was sufficient to acquire it for a heavy price and convert it into a memorial, will the government acquire the sprawling Kodanad Estate, where she used to spend most of her time before her death in December 2016, too and convert that also into a memorial, the judge wondered.