Amma Death

The union secretary of Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam, Saravanan, was hacked to death by unidentified persons in Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga Sunday, police said.

The law minister of Tamil Nadu has alleged that two senior bureaucrats lied about former chief minister J Jayalalithaa's health condition during her 75-day treatment in Chennai's Apollo Hospitals in 2016. "Amma would have been alive had she been given proper treatment during her 75-day-hospitalisation," Tamil Nadu Law Minister CV Shanmugam told rep...

The ruling AIADMK said 18 disqualified legislators can re-join the party on one condition -- they must "kneel" and "apologise" at the memorial of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa. The 18 legislators were disqualified after they sided with rebel AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran, following a power tussle within the party after death of the f...

Bollywood thespian Sridevi passed away in Dubai today at the age of 54. She was in Dubai to attend her nephew and actor Sonam Kapoor's cousin Mohit Marwah's wedding when she suffered from a cardiac arrest.

The result of the by-election for Chennai's RK Nagar assembly constituency, which fell vacant after the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa last December, were declared today. Independent candidate TTV Dhinakaran, who was sidelined from the AIADMK by the EPS and OPS faction, won the prestigious and much-sought-after RK Nagar as...

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,...

O Panneerselvam wants to see proof of VK Sasikala and her nephew TTV Dinakaran's eviction before the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister begins merger talks, his camp today informed the rival faction of the AIADMK. The evidence must come in the form of resignation letters from Ms Sasikala, who is party chief and Mr Dinakaran, who she appointed her dep...

Deprived of the two-leaf election symbol of AIADMK, the camp of Jayalalithaa loyalist O Panneerselvam has hit upon a macabre way to reiterate their claim of being the inheritors of her legacy. The AIADMK (Puratchithalaivi Amma), as Mr Panneerselvam's faction called now, is carrying a replica of the coffin of the late Jayalalithaa during their campa...

Deepa Jayakumar will contest by-elections to her aunt J Jayalalithaa's RK Nagar seat in Chennai, made vacant by the AIADMK matriarch's death in December last year. Ms Jayakumar also launched a forum called the MGR Amma Deepa Federation today, not a political party she emphasised, and vowed on her aunt's 69th birthday to "retrieve the two leaves sym...

After Jayalalithaa's death, Sasikala took a series of steps to take total control of the party and the government. She kept all family members of Jayalalithaa out of the last rites. She was the one who decided every aspect of the funeral, last rites and the post-funeral sympathy gathering.

Hours after a rebellion in Tamil Nadu's ruling party by O Panneerselvam, a loyalist of J Jayalalithaa who took charge as Chief Minister after her death, one of the four persons to come out openly in his support is V Maitreyan. The three-time Rajya Sabha member, who carries a photograph of Amma or Jayalalithaa in his pocket and vows to always do so...

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...

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.

From mass tonsuring to tattoos, late Tamil Nadu chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's supporters are coming up with unique ways to pay homage to the AIADMK chief since her death on December 5.

A host of senior AIADMK functionaries on Sunday urged former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's aide Sasikala Natarajan to take over as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. They also asked Ms Natarajan to take on the mantle of both the party.

The union secretary of Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam, Saravanan, was hacked to death by unidentified persons in Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga Sunday, police said.

The law minister of Tamil Nadu has alleged that two senior bureaucrats lied about former chief minister J Jayalalithaa's health condition during her 75-day treatment in Chennai's Apollo Hospitals in 2016. "Amma would have been alive had she been given proper treatment during her 75-day-hospitalisation," Tamil Nadu Law Minister CV Shanmugam told rep...

The ruling AIADMK said 18 disqualified legislators can re-join the party on one condition -- they must "kneel" and "apologise" at the memorial of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa. The 18 legislators were disqualified after they sided with rebel AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran, following a power tussle within the party after death of the f...

Bollywood thespian Sridevi passed away in Dubai today at the age of 54. She was in Dubai to attend her nephew and actor Sonam Kapoor's cousin Mohit Marwah's wedding when she suffered from a cardiac arrest.

The result of the by-election for Chennai's RK Nagar assembly constituency, which fell vacant after the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa last December, were declared today. Independent candidate TTV Dhinakaran, who was sidelined from the AIADMK by the EPS and OPS faction, won the prestigious and much-sought-after RK Nagar as...

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,...

O Panneerselvam wants to see proof of VK Sasikala and her nephew TTV Dinakaran's eviction before the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister begins merger talks, his camp today informed the rival faction of the AIADMK. The evidence must come in the form of resignation letters from Ms Sasikala, who is party chief and Mr Dinakaran, who she appointed her dep...

Deprived of the two-leaf election symbol of AIADMK, the camp of Jayalalithaa loyalist O Panneerselvam has hit upon a macabre way to reiterate their claim of being the inheritors of her legacy. The AIADMK (Puratchithalaivi Amma), as Mr Panneerselvam's faction called now, is carrying a replica of the coffin of the late Jayalalithaa during their campa...

Deepa Jayakumar will contest by-elections to her aunt J Jayalalithaa's RK Nagar seat in Chennai, made vacant by the AIADMK matriarch's death in December last year. Ms Jayakumar also launched a forum called the MGR Amma Deepa Federation today, not a political party she emphasised, and vowed on her aunt's 69th birthday to "retrieve the two leaves sym...

After Jayalalithaa's death, Sasikala took a series of steps to take total control of the party and the government. She kept all family members of Jayalalithaa out of the last rites. She was the one who decided every aspect of the funeral, last rites and the post-funeral sympathy gathering.

Hours after a rebellion in Tamil Nadu's ruling party by O Panneerselvam, a loyalist of J Jayalalithaa who took charge as Chief Minister after her death, one of the four persons to come out openly in his support is V Maitreyan. The three-time Rajya Sabha member, who carries a photograph of Amma or Jayalalithaa in his pocket and vows to always do so...

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...

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.

From mass tonsuring to tattoos, late Tamil Nadu chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's supporters are coming up with unique ways to pay homage to the AIADMK chief since her death on December 5.

A host of senior AIADMK functionaries on Sunday urged former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's aide Sasikala Natarajan to take over as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. They also asked Ms Natarajan to take on the mantle of both the party.