Madras HC stays the 100% seating capacity of TN Govt until further orders.
The PIL filed by Advocate PS Prabhu, through his counsel U Bharanidharan was led by Senior Counsel Sathish Parasaran before the First Bench of the Madras High Court comprising 1/n
Hon’ble Mr Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Mr. Justice SK.Ramoorthi.
During the course of the hearing, state’s Advocate General Vijay Narayan appeared for the state and defended the action of @CMOTamilNadu. 2/n
He said, already the Madurai Bench has taken up this matter and directed the @CMOTamilNadu to file reply & posted the matter to 11th of January.
AG further said, the reason @CMOTamilNadu decided to open up theaters to 100% capacity was due to the 3/n
reason that Covid19 spread is comparatively under control. “Hence we have decided to open up theaters” to which Hon’ble CJ of MHC said, “We should take only ”baby steps” in relaxing the norms.4/n
Staying the operation of GO.Ms.No.001, Revenue and Disaster Management (DM-IV) Department, dated 04.01.2021, ”until further orders”, the First Bench of the Madras HC, tagged the matter along with the PIL in Madurai. 5/n
Hon’ble the CJ of Madras, HC said, this order is passed in spite of an order already passed in this regard by the Madurai Bench. 6/n
Senior Counsel Sathish Parasaran will appear on behalf of the petitioner PS Prabhu, when the matter will be taken up by Hon’ble Justice MM Sundaresh and Justice Anandhi at the Madurai Bench of Madras HC. 7/n
Sources : After meeting DMK President @mkstalin, TMMK Chief Professor Jawahirullah says, “People like Owaisi are not required for Tamil Nadu. Islamic parties in TN are fighting for social justice. TN should grow on a world scale”. 1/n
DMK’s Achilles heel, Third Kalaingar Udhayanidhi was instrumental for this fiasco.
The proposal to invite Owaisi was mooted by DMK’s Judas & General Secretary, Duraimurugan. He suggested to Udhayanidhi that, his son Kadhir Anand won only 2/n
because of the campaign by Owaisi. Urdu speaking Muslims are located in certain pockets of Vaniyambadi & Chepauk.
To impress the Third Kalaignar, Duraimurugan mooted this proposal, and impressed upon Udhayanidhi that due to the Urdu Muslims in Chepauk his contest in 3/n
Sources : ADMK IT wing Secretary, Aspire Swaminathan, @aspireswami Jt. Coordinator - Media Relations AIADMK who calls himself Startup Specialist, has decided to back O Panneerselvam, in the impending power struggle between EPS & OPS. 1/n
While Sunil Kanugulo of OMG, has already been hired by @aiadmk, and is working for the party, Aspire Swaminathan has hired one Ashok Thomas, a former journalist, who is now running a PR firm, in the name and style of “Adroit Public Relations Private Limited”. 2/n
So far, 6 crores is reported to be paid to the said Ashok Thomas by OPS.
OPS is completely being operated by BJP and a dinner sponsored by Dinamalar was held at Hotel Leela Palace day before yesterday. OPS’s son in law Kasirajan was present in the dinner. 3/n
To understand who Udhayanidhi is, read this fine piece in The Week that appeared in October 2019. Except @mkstalin everyone understands who he is 🤦🏻♀️
// Though sources close to Stalin’s family say the idea of forming a young women’s wing was talked about, 1/4
there hasn't been any decision taken in this regard yet. However, information from the insiders is that the young women’s wing, under the youth wing in the DMK, will be akin to the Ilaignar and Ilam Pengal Pasarai or the young men and women’s wing in the AIADMK. 2/4
The idea is to woo young women who are interested in politics and make the youth wing more powerful. The party intends to rope in women under the age of 35 who are knowledgeable and have the financial wherewithal to fight the opponents. 3/4
1) When he claims that he is providing world class health facility and claims the state has prospered under his rule, why none of his cabinet colleagues, who were infected with Covid19, for example Minister for Higher Education KP Anbalagan get admitted into a government 2/n
hospital. Does @CMOTamilNadu’s own cabinet colleagues don’t trust government hospitals ? Or, whatever @CMOTamilNadu says is a lie ?
2) When his own cabinet colleagues get infected with Covid19, and have the risk of becoming a super-spreader, why is @CMOTamilNadu 3/n
Sources : Highly placed sources in CBI say, Arulanandham, Town Secretary of @AIADMK, was the blue-eyed boy of LA Minister SP Velumani. With the help of Velumani, the said Arulandham was running 3 TASMAC bars in Pollachi and Vadugapalayam. 1/5
Velumani had been engaging this Arulanandham to sabotage his own party man and Deputy Speaker Pollachi Jayaraman, to settle personal / political scores.
Velu Bhai had introduced the sexual predator Arulanandham to BJP leadership too add sources. 2/5
Sources in CBI further add, it was @SPVelumanicbe who floated the rumour that Deputy Speaker Pollachi Jayaraman’s son was involved in the above said sexual assault case. 3/5
"True, the prosecution could not prove that the respondents are members of an unlawful organisation. But these are surreptitious activities for which evidence
may not readily available, in black and white. Everything is done under the carpet, behind the curtain, without leaving any footprint."
In short: you are guilty if there is evidence against you. But you are also guilty if there is no evidence against you, because that only
shows how good you are at operating “surreptitiously”. The State always wins. At this stage we are in Stalinist show-trial territory.
Welcome to New India where the judiciary is a rubber stamp of executive's actions.