 "AIADMK shows signs of midlife crisis in TN as it gasps for rightful heir")
On March 25, 1989, the history of Tamil Nadu (TN) politics was in a sense rewritten when Jayaram Jayalalithaa’s sari was allegedly “pulled and torn” by a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) minister in the Assembly. Old-timers still remember a weeping Jayalalithaa vowing to return to the Assembly as chief minister (CM).
For a charismatic politician like Jayalalithaa, this battle was another set of struggles she had to face after the death of M G Ramachandran (MGR) in 1987, when the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) was split into two factions — one supporting MGR’s wife Janaki Ramachandran, the other
