Astrologically, JJ is running a favourable time now and it would appear that she has chosen a proper day for this announcement as well. She is much better than MMS and may be, she will prove more effective than NaMo also. As tabras I think we should support her, an Iyengar by birth, shouldn't we?
It is a wild guess. How can Jayalalitha be more effective than MMS? MMS’ party (Congress), on its own, has 205 MPs in the current Lok Sabha. Despite this and being an acclaimed Economist, MMS is being taken to task by one and all. Each and every day, Congress has to depend on its coalition parties. It will become eighth wonder if Jayalalitha is able to manage the affairs with 40 MPs (assume she wins all seats) without any problem / corruption free for five years.
A vibrant democracy requires a strong opposition leader acceptable throughout the country. At present, we don’t have one. Therefore, Indians have no alternative but to elect Congress once again. Otherwise, we will have to go in for regional leaders like VP Singh, HD Deve Gowda, IK Gujral, with no clear vision, but to occupy only the PM seat.
Every one tasted Jayalalitha’s regime between 1991-96. Many have lost faith in democracy at that time.
There is a saying: “KNOWN DEVIL IS BETTER THAN UNKNOWN ANGEL (MAY BE A DEMON IN THE FORM OF ANGEL)”.
As regards Jayalalitha’s Brahmin tag, is Iyer and Iyengar one and the same? Frankly, it is not so. Iyengar population is less than 0.75% of total Tamil Nadu population. Unfortunately, for a long time, Tamil Brahmins have not produced a good political leader. We had one viz., P Ramamurthy; but he was a Communist.