Tamil Nadu
Amma’s Victory, the Politics of Freebies and the Looming Turmoil!
Just a few weeks back, the heated run up to the Tamil adu legislative elections had sidelined even the scorching summer and the election results announced ‘Amma’ Jayalalithaa as the winner. While this bucked the trend of anti-incumbency and returned Jayalalithaa to power for a second consecutive time, it nevertheless laid down bare the contradictions in Tamil adu politics.