Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Monday said that AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa has ‘earned’ the right to be elected as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister again after the Karnataka High Court acquitted her in the disproportionate assets (DA) case.
“It’s not an unusual thing. When you are in a democratic system, then such twists and turns are expected. We can’t do much about it because delays are done by the accused. She (Jayalalithaa) has now earned the right to be sworn as the chief minister again,” said Swamy.
Jayalalithaa was today acquitted by the Karnataka High Court in the disproportionate assets case against her. The verdict came on the appeal filed by Jayalalithaa and three others, including her aide Sasikala in the case.
Today’s judicial outcome is a major setback to the opposition DMK and is expected to swing political fortunes in favour of the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, which goes to assembly polls in about a year.
A trial court had on September 27 last year verdict sentenced Jayalalithaa and three others to four years in jail and imposed a hefty fine of Rs. 100 crore on her and Rs. 10 crore each on three others.
Meanwhile, massive celebrations have broken out across Tamil Nadu following the verdict.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam along with his Cabinet colleagues and senior AIADMK leaders joined the celebrations outside Jayalalithaa’s Poes Garden residence in Chennai. The AIADMK cadres raised slogans in support of ‘Amma’, distributed sweets and burst crackers.
