This Article is From Oct 28, 2014

Remove Jayalalithaa's Portrait, He Said. Chaos - And a Flung Mic - Followed.

Remove Jayalalithaa's Portrait, He Said. Chaos - And a Flung Mic - Followed.
Chennai: A portrait of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa led to a mega-brawl today with politicians from her party clashing with a member of the rival DMK.  

The municipal Council in Karur town in central Tamil Nadu has 48 members, just one of them belongs to the DMK.

He asked that the photograph of Ms Jayalalithaa be removed from the council hall building because she is no longer the head of the state government. Her supporters responded angrily and a mic was thrown at him. The portrait will not be removed till the government orders it, said the municipal chairman Selvaraj who belongs to Ms Jayalalithaa's party, the AIADMK.

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Ms Jayalalithaa, 66, was disqualified from office last month after she was convicted for corruption during her first term as Chief Minister.  The verdict truncated her third term in office, and led to her spending three weeks in jail before the Supreme Court granted her bail.

The top court ordered the politician  to Instruct her adoring supporters to respect law and order.  When she was arrested, public buses had been set on fire, some DMK offices had been targeted.   When loyalist O Panneerselvam replaced her, he and other ministers were seen weeping into their handkerchiefs in a show of loyalty and deference to their leader who was in prison at the time.

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