Letter to BS: Relief for TN govt as HC upholds disqualification of 18 MLAs

Dinakaran did not regard the verdict as a 'setback'

It was a huge relief for the E Palaniswami government in Tamil Nadu that the disqualification of 18 MLAs of TTV Dinakaran-led Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazagam by the Speaker was upheld by the Madras High Court. The government lost no time to claim that it received the judicial sanction to continue with ‘Amma rule’. After the court verdict, it faces no imminent threat to continue in power. Like it or not, the status quo will continue with no major political churning in the foreseeable future. It is only right that nobody even remotely suggested that the judgement could have been