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5 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
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1n A porcine faced @BJP4India spokie claimed that BJP’s great virtue is that it never uses power to help supporters. Really? Let’s see what Vajpayee did in 2001 shall we? Remember Karunanidhi then an NDA ally with ministers in the centre being roughed up during arrest?
2 JayaLalitha had come to power in May 2001 in TN & ordered this as revenge. An outraged Vajpayee demanded a report from then TN governor Fathima Beevi. Fathima sent the a report prepared by TN Police, which obviously towed the state government line justifying the brutality.
3 Vajpayee was furious that there was nothing in the report he could use to crack down on JayaLalitha. So the cabinet formally asked the president for Fathima’s sacking, which happened a day later.
thehindu.com/todays-paper/t…
4. the 3 senior police officers (including police commissioner Muthukaruppan) who took part in the arrest were ordered to be shifted out of the TN police & ordered to the centre. Defence minister George Fernandes visited Karunanidhi in jail & called for JayaLalitha’s dismissal.
5. The state government backed down immediately thereafter. So is the rhinoceros faced BJP spokie clueless about history? A liar? Dumb? Or is she claiming Vajpayee was corrupt & violated the party ethics? Or that she knows the party and it’s ethos better than Vajpayee?

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