Jayalalithaa Mother

Despite elaborate flower arrangements and expectant party members waiting at the shoreside memorial of J Jayalalithaa in Chennai, the merger of the two rival factions that were formed in her party after her death ran into last-minute glitches: Chief Minister E Palaniswami and his predecessor, O Panneerselvam, or "EPS" and "OPS" in popular parlance,...

Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK will fight for its former chief minister J Jayalalithaa's seat under a new name - two in fact. Party chief VK Sasikala's faction will call itself AIADMK Amma, and rival O Panneerselvam's group will go by the name AIADMK Puratchi Thalaivi Amma. Both factions will also fight under new symbols after the Election Commission s...

A team of doctors including a UK specialist who treated former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa after she was hospitalised in Chennai shared the details of her illness and how they attended to her. Doctors at Apollo Hospital said they wanted to "dispel the rumours" that have been swirling about the death on December 5 of the 68-year-old politician, lo...

The news of Sasikala Natarajan's election to the AIADMK legislature party, which will enable her to take over as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, has received mixed reactions. While her opposition DMK has vociferously protested against the idea, social media witnessed both support and opposition. Chinnamma (mother's little sister) as Ms Natarajan is ...

More than a month after she took over as AIADMK General Secretary following Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's death, VK Sasikala was today elected legislature party leader, paving the way for her to become the Chief Minister. At a meeting of party legislators in Chennai, Chief Minister O Panneerselvam proposed Ms Sasikala's name as legisla...

The ruling AIADMK has summoned its legislators to the party office in Chennai today and no agenda for the meeting has been announced, sparking speculation that the party may replace Chief Minister O Panneerselvam with General Secretary Sasikala Natarajan.

It is indeed intriguing that the MLAs have not switched camps despite the fact that Sasikala will stay in jail for the next three years and cannot become an MLA for 10 years. It would seem that AIADMK MLAs, "orphaned" by the death of Amma want to cling on to a Mother figure - a role they believe only Chinnamma can fulfill.

In photographs tweeted by the ruling AIAMDK on Wednesday, Sasikala Natarajan bears shades of "Amma" as she greets party workers with hands folded at the Poes Garden residence in Chennai that she shared for many years with former chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

For someone who was fiercely private, not many know that J Jayalalithaa once wrote in detail to 'clarify the truth of her life.'

J Jayalalithaa, Tamil Nadu's beloved Amma (mother), was buried this evening on Chennai's Marina Beach, with lakhs gathered and united in an immense but peaceful show of grief.

A sea of weeping mourners has converged at the public hall in Chennai where J Jayalalithaa's body, draped in the flag, will be kept on a raised platform till about 4 pm. Thousands of police officers briefly formed chains earlier this morning to stop the heaving crowd from surging up the steps. The politician was serving her fourth term as Chief Min...

J Jayalalithaa, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and one of the most powerful women politicians the country has ever had, died on Monday in a Chennai hospital. She was 68. The chief minister had a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening, hours after her party the AIADMK said that doctors from Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences or AIIMS had declared ...

A day after issuing a statement saying she had a "rebirth", Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa -- who had been hospitalized for more than a month due to an acute lung infection - had telephoned the family of a leader of her party, the AIADMK.

DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi's wife and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi's mother, Rajathi Ammal, has visited Apollo Hospital to enquire about the health of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.

After refusing to name a stand-in for J Jayalalithaa, who has been in hospital for nearly three weeks, her party has launched a social media campaign declaring "all is well" with "Amma" (mother), as she is referred to by massive swathes of supporters.

Despite elaborate flower arrangements and expectant party members waiting at the shoreside memorial of J Jayalalithaa in Chennai, the merger of the two rival factions that were formed in her party after her death ran into last-minute glitches: Chief Minister E Palaniswami and his predecessor, O Panneerselvam, or "EPS" and "OPS" in popular parlance,...

Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK will fight for its former chief minister J Jayalalithaa's seat under a new name - two in fact. Party chief VK Sasikala's faction will call itself AIADMK Amma, and rival O Panneerselvam's group will go by the name AIADMK Puratchi Thalaivi Amma. Both factions will also fight under new symbols after the Election Commission s...

A team of doctors including a UK specialist who treated former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa after she was hospitalised in Chennai shared the details of her illness and how they attended to her. Doctors at Apollo Hospital said they wanted to "dispel the rumours" that have been swirling about the death on December 5 of the 68-year-old politician, lo...

The news of Sasikala Natarajan's election to the AIADMK legislature party, which will enable her to take over as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, has received mixed reactions. While her opposition DMK has vociferously protested against the idea, social media witnessed both support and opposition. Chinnamma (mother's little sister) as Ms Natarajan is ...

More than a month after she took over as AIADMK General Secretary following Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's death, VK Sasikala was today elected legislature party leader, paving the way for her to become the Chief Minister. At a meeting of party legislators in Chennai, Chief Minister O Panneerselvam proposed Ms Sasikala's name as legisla...

The ruling AIADMK has summoned its legislators to the party office in Chennai today and no agenda for the meeting has been announced, sparking speculation that the party may replace Chief Minister O Panneerselvam with General Secretary Sasikala Natarajan.

It is indeed intriguing that the MLAs have not switched camps despite the fact that Sasikala will stay in jail for the next three years and cannot become an MLA for 10 years. It would seem that AIADMK MLAs, "orphaned" by the death of Amma want to cling on to a Mother figure - a role they believe only Chinnamma can fulfill.

In photographs tweeted by the ruling AIAMDK on Wednesday, Sasikala Natarajan bears shades of "Amma" as she greets party workers with hands folded at the Poes Garden residence in Chennai that she shared for many years with former chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

For someone who was fiercely private, not many know that J Jayalalithaa once wrote in detail to 'clarify the truth of her life.'

J Jayalalithaa, Tamil Nadu's beloved Amma (mother), was buried this evening on Chennai's Marina Beach, with lakhs gathered and united in an immense but peaceful show of grief.

A sea of weeping mourners has converged at the public hall in Chennai where J Jayalalithaa's body, draped in the flag, will be kept on a raised platform till about 4 pm. Thousands of police officers briefly formed chains earlier this morning to stop the heaving crowd from surging up the steps. The politician was serving her fourth term as Chief Min...

J Jayalalithaa, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and one of the most powerful women politicians the country has ever had, died on Monday in a Chennai hospital. She was 68. The chief minister had a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening, hours after her party the AIADMK said that doctors from Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences or AIIMS had declared ...

A day after issuing a statement saying she had a "rebirth", Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa -- who had been hospitalized for more than a month due to an acute lung infection - had telephoned the family of a leader of her party, the AIADMK.

DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi's wife and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi's mother, Rajathi Ammal, has visited Apollo Hospital to enquire about the health of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.

After refusing to name a stand-in for J Jayalalithaa, who has been in hospital for nearly three weeks, her party has launched a social media campaign declaring "all is well" with "Amma" (mother), as she is referred to by massive swathes of supporters.