In what must be a dubious distinction or record of sorts, incumbent Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalaithaa has foisted of filed a defamation case for the twelfth (12th) time against her arch rival and bete noire K. Karunanidhi....... The twelfth defamation notice filed during her present two and a half year long chief ministerial stint pertains to an article allegedly written by Karunanidhi in his party's mouthpiece "Murasoli" alluding to the fact that Jayalalithaa was doling out official advertisements and other government publicity material in a favoured and whimsical manner in an effort to exercise "dictatorial" control over the same...... As is her wont, the Tamil Nadu chief minister has been unstinting witgh her defamation notices and suits this time around too ever since she assumed office in May 2011, the suits and notices are not only restricted to rival politicians, but fifty (50) such suits and notices have also been filed against newspapers, television channels (news channels) and media houses that have either printed or then aired news that was considered to be less than complimentary to her royal highness....... Political satirists too find themselves staring down the barrel of Jayalalithaa's gun and more than twenty such cases had been filed against them in various courts spread through the length and breadth of this vast country for their purported sins of omission and commission........ One may do well to remember or recall the fact that this is nothing new as far as Jayalalithaa Jayaram is concerned, more than 100 such cases were filed against her political rivals and so called "inimical" media houses, publications and reporters during her chief ministerial stint between 1991-1996........ However the same did a mysterious disappearing act just before the state elections in 1996 only to make a somewhat belated appearance in slightly reduced numbers (80 odd) during her next chief ministerial stint between 2001-2006...... Will, Ms., Jayalalithaa Jayaram go the whole hog this time around and sees all the defamation cases filed by her and on her behalf to their logical conclusion or then mysteriously or then should I say magnanimously withdraw the same just before the 2016 state elections? well your guess in this regard is as good as mine..........
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