DA Case verdict against Jayalalithaa: Eight days on, unrest continues in Tamil Nadu

Tension prevailed across the state continuously for the past eight days due to the unrest of the AIADMK party cadres.

More than two dozens of people including a class 10 student Nagalakshmi in Madurai, a college student Joshna in Lalgudi near Tiruchi were ended their life by committing suicide, while few others died due to cardiac arrest after hearing the apprehension of the Tamil Nadu former chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

The special court judge John Michael D’Cunha declared four years imprisonment and Rs100 crore as fine amount to Jayalalithaa, her aide N Sasikala, J Elavarasi and V N Sudhakaran in the Rs66 crore disproportionate assets case slapped on them in 1996.

Two state owned buses were torched soon after the judgment. One bus was torched at Kancheepuram and the other at Virudhu Nagar. 

Interestingly, four major corporation including Vellore have passed out a resolution against the verdict issued on the AIADMK party supremo J Jayalalithaa.

Everyone in the state thought that the agitations will come to an end after the new government led by O Panneerselvam was formed last week in the state.

However the protests continued aggressively all over the states. Soon after the clash and damage of state owned buses by the PMK cadres near Mahabalipuram in the Chithirai festival programme organized by the Vanniyar Sangam, the then chief minister J Jayalalithaa warned daringly the PMK party in the assembly floor. Moreover she also added that the loss incurred should be bore by the PMK party cadres.

However the situation is going worse and worser in the state. More than 1,000 protests, apart from 200 fasting and peaceful agitations across the state in several towns, cities and villages since September 27. The cinema halls were closed their shutters one day and its the turn for all the private school management and they have declared one day closure on coming Tuesday and the agitations goes on and on for the early release of Jayalalithaa from the prison, who is now detained in Parappana Agrahara prison in Bangalore.

On Sunday, AIADMK councillors in Chennai Corporation led by mayor Saidai S Duraisamy staged a fasting in a bid to protest against the imprisonment of the party's general secretary. They all wore a black dress and sat near MGR mausoleum near Marina to mark their protest. The AIADMK has 171 members in the 200 member council.

A group of people organized a funeral ceremony for a man who was ‘alive’ and he was taken on the chariot on the streets and roads in Washermenpet. The ‘dead corpse’ was wearing a mask of former chief minister M Karunanidhi with a yellow towel around the man’s neck. Irked over this, the DMK party functionaries have planned to bring it to the notice of the court to make it an issue.

Though several protestors and agitators conducting the protests, fasts and agitations with or without taking the permission from the police personnel concerned, the police personnel are literally confused whether to take action against them or not, as their ‘bosses’ didn’t give any proper instructions to their subordinates in this issue.

Meanwhile, state minister S Valarmathi has carried 'Poochatti' (burning wood in a vessel) at the Ilankaliamman Temple in the city for the early return of the former chief minister J Jayalalithaa from the Bangalore prison.