It’s quite miserable to the state
of Tamil Nadu missing the beloved Chief Minister, Dr. Jayalalitha, in an
unexpected down to illness. We may love or hate her, but her achievements and
attitudes toward the Tamil people couldn’t be denied by anyone apart her
self-confidence, courage and commendable leadership at governance. She perhaps
corrupted at a time, and made mistakes like a regular human, but for that alone
we could not stop thinking about her wonderful deeds that helped achieving the
state in its goals. Her mourn to death has proved that everyone admired her in
some ways esp. being a woman her empowerment had inspired millions of women,
who seeks rights to achieve their dreams, and she stamped a irremovable ink in
frame and fame as Amma – meaning mother. The entire state has blocked their
ways, prevented their day to day activities and took troublesome to pay homage
to their honourable Chief Minister leaving away all the differences. There’s any political leader received such a
multitude in last 3 decades after the MGR’s crowd pulling funeral. It’s truly
amazing and admirable how a woman administered the regime in single hold and in
a court where only men ruled so far.
Her regime had done innumerable goodness
to the society and her rainwater harvesting project, urging every household to
implement the system is one of the best, continues to improve the groundwater
and prevents flooding enough. One of the great achievements of her lately was
sustaining her regime continuously for 2nd time, on the footstep of
her preceptor MGR. Though we may complain money played a role on the success, but
undoubtedly it wasn’t the only reason and I myself believed only she could give
better governance than the existing political parties. Her leadership was
pretty strong, though she was the only commander on the sail everything worked
fine on her diligence. The Cauvery issue handled by her is worth commendable
and I believe we could have not reach this much, where Supreme Court’s
intervention and fasting the progress of forming Cauvery Water Management Board on
implement our right and share of water, if she hadn’t endeavour die hard. How
many letters? I think she could be the only Chief Minister across the India to
write innumerable letters to the Prime Minister on the requirement of the
state. And most of them were related to Cauvery water dispute and rescuing
fishermen from the grip of Sri Lankan Navy.
She might be a great actress and
pretty heroine in past but I haven’t watched many of her films and my
introduction to her was only as Chief Minister and I have seen her being outstanding
and sometimes disagreeable. On the political front I admire the way she dominate
the regime and party, because leading a party (with about 15 million members)
with restraint is impossible unless herself being a disciple, of the former. And
being silent always I really wonder how she continue to retain herself among
the public despite many ups and downs happening in her personal and political life.
And also maintains a lifestyle that’s quite mysterious where meeting she is also
uneasy even for her party men/women. Now, her demise has brought an end to all
and my only thought right now was how and who going to lead the Tamil Nadu for
next four year. Though OPS have been the Chief Minister, missing someone
powerful like Jayalalitha is deceive for the people to believe in the existing
regime. I really don’t know what to say rather thanking her for the best!
It is interesting to see your country seems to be in conflict as much as ours is. I am sorry it is a troubling time with her health bad.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to hear about the illness of your Chief Minister. From your words, she obviously has done so much to help the state of Tamil Nadu.. It is always hard to see the 'heroes' in our lives suffer....Most leaders in all countries have good qualities and bad qualities... But TRUE leadership is hard to find. "J" will be missed I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Betsy
I too admired the braveness and talent of our former CM. I am not a fan of her administrative style using excessive force. But I guess she had no other option.
ReplyDeleteDestination Infinity
An admirable lady! It is not easy to manage the ministers here. They were scared of her. Her way of handling them was different, I think.
ReplyDeleteShe will be remembered mainly for rainwater harvesting and amma unavagam. They gave free food now during the cyclone period, a couple of days ago. The food is prepared in a clean environment, so everybody likes it.