The puratchi thalaivi (revolutionary leader), J. Jayalalithaa, passed away in December 2016, barely seven months after her party, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), won the assembly election for the second time in a row in Tamil Nadu.
The party and the state went through much turmoil after her death, including Jaya’s friend and confidante V.K. Sasikala’s emergence as a successor, her (some say convenient) incarceration in a decade-sold disproportionate assets case, the coming together of the break away faction led by O. Panneerselvam and the official Edappadi K. Palaniswami group (some say BJPengineered), and the latter’s ascent to the chief minister’s chair. But through it all, one thing was clear—‘Amma’, as Jayalalithaa was fondly called, still cast a long shadow even after her death. As another assembly election (April 2021) draws near, the AIADMK is again invoking her name. Seeking a third consecutive term in power, the party, now led by Chief Minister Palaniswami, is banking on its governance record, the slew of Amma welfare schemes and “her legacy” to carry them through.
And what better shrine to showcase her legacy than her officecumhome of almost half a century, Veda Nilayam, at Poes Garden in Chennai. The state government has now enacted a law to take over Veda Nilayam, an address almost synonymous with Jayalalithaa for the people of Tamil Nadu, and convert it into a memorial for the AIADMK icon.
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