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As the countdown begins for the verdict in the 18-year-old disproportionate assets case against AIADMK supremo and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, political parties are keenly watching what the special court in Bangalore has in store for the 66-year-old leader tomorrow.
Anxiety prevails among AIADMK workers and office-bearers ahead of D-Day for their ‘Amma’ (mother), even as they maintain that she will weather yet another storm in her political life.
They insist that the case was “foisted” on her by the DMK seeking political vendetta after its triumph in the 1996 elections and point out that she has come out unscathed in some other cases filed against her.
The DMK, a party struggling to keep its flock intact in the wake of electoral drubbings since 2011, is keenly awaiting the verdict. The party’s senior leader and General Secretary, K Anbazhagan, had earlier impleaded in the case.
Other political parties are also anxious about the verdict since it could well redefine the political scenario ahead of the Assembly polls to be held in 2016.
Much like the political parties, the people of the State are also waiting with bated breath to know the outcome of perhaps one of the longest legal battles concerning a political leader in the country.
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