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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa passed away at Apollo Hospital at 11:30 pm on Monday 5 Dec 2016 after suffering cardiac arrest . Jayalalithaa was 68 years in age. Jayalalithaa  shot to iconic status first in the glamorous world of Tamil films, and then in the male-dominated rough and tumble of Tamil politics. Comprised equally of triumphs and travails, setbacks and comebacks, her political career saw her rebound from corruption cases and rise to the chief ministership of Tamil Nadu four times.Because she strode so tall over her party and state her passing leaves a gaping void ­ and great uncertainty about how it will be filled. Jayalalithaa along with Mayawati, Mamata and Jayalalithaa, were not only in control of the political destiny of people of their states but they are also shaping the future of Indian politics. This article talks about Jayalalithaa Assets, What will happen to her assets as she left without will, Her timeline, freebies that Amma provided, The Disproportionate Assets case and wedding of her foster son..

Jayalalithaa Assets

Jaya didn’t leave a will: So, who’s the legal heir? Will her political heir apparent Sasikalaa Natarajan stay put in Veda Nilayam or will Amma’s niece Deepa Jayakumar and her brother Dipak stake claim? Or will history repeat itself as in the case of Jaya’s mentor M G Ramachandran, whose house in Ramapuram, Chennai remained mired in legal disputes decades after his death?

AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa declared assets worth Rs 113.73 crore as on April 2015. This was Rs.3.40 crore less than what she had declared the previous year. The AIADMK leader has filed income tax returns upto the assessment year 2015-16 and assessments have been completed up to 2013-14.

Movable and immovable assets : She has movable assets, total value of which is Rs 41.63 crore and immovable properties valued at Rs 72.09 crore and the total value is Rs 113.73 crore, according to the affidavit filed by her to contest from Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly constituency.

Cash : She has Rs 41,000 cash in hand, listed Rs 2.04 crore as liabilities and declared agriculture in the profession-occupation column.

Investment and shares :In the column on investment in companies, she said “various deposits and shares with companies have been seized by the police and with the custody of the court in case relating to Spl.C.C.No.208 of 2004 on the file of 36th Additional City Civil and Sessions Court, (Special Court) Bengaluru.” The reference is with regard to the disproportionate assets case against her.

Residence, property and commercial buildings :

  • Jayalalithaa’s residence in upscale Poes Garden ‘Veda Nilayam’ spread over 24,000 square feet with a built up area of 21,662 square feet is valued at Rs 43.96 crore. She, along with her mother, bought the property for Rs 1.32 lakh in 1967.
  • She owns 14.50 acres of farm land in Jeedimetla village in Ranga Reddy district in Telangana and 3.43 acres in Cheyyur Village in Kancheepuram village in Tamil Nadu.
  • Jayalalithaa had purchased the property in Telangana in 1968 along with her mother Sandhya and the Cheyyur property in 1981.
  • She owns four commercial buildings, including one each here and in Hyderabad. (MORE) PTI

Cars and Vehicles

Jayalalithaa has two Toyoto Prado SUVs, together valued at Rs 40 lakh. Also, she has a Tempo Traveller, a Tempo Trax, a Mahindra Jeep, an Ambassador car of 1980 make, a Mahindra Bolero, a Swaraj Mazada Maxi, and a Contessa (1990 model) and the vehicles are together worth Rs 42,25,000.

Gold and Silver Jewellery

On her gold jewellery, the Tamil Nadu CM said the value of 21,280.300 grams could not be ascertained as it was with the Karnataka government treasury in connection with the disproportionate assets case. She has also mentioned that the assets case was pending in the Supreme Court.

She has declared possession of 1,250 kg of silver articles valued at Rs 3,12,50,000.

Investment in Firms

Jayalalithaa had made investments in five firms as a ‘partner’, which are together worth Rs 27.44 crore. These include Shri Jaya Publications, Sasi Enterprises, Kodanad Estate, Royal Valley Floritech Exports and Green T Estate.

She has no investments in NSS, Postal savings, Insurance policies. She has also not given personal loans or advances to any person or entity, the affidavit stated.

TimeLine of Jayalalithaa

Timeline of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s life in film and politics, which follows her evolution from silver screen stardom to political icon status. Ref Times of India

Born in Karnataka on February 2, 1948, into an Iyengar family, she was first named Komalavalli after her grandmother –– and later given her official name, Jayalalithaa She moved to Chennai in the 1950s to live with her mother, who was an actress. A shy young girl, Jayalalithaa had been a topper at the Bishop Cotton Girl’s High School in Bengaluru and at the Church Park Presentation Convent in Chennai.Though her family was prosperous when Jayalalithaa was a child, things changed later on. To support the family, her mother took up acting as a profession, and young Jaya also joined her as a 16-year-old

The peak of Jayalalithaa’s film career occurred between 1965 and 1980. During this period, she was one of India’s highest-paid actresses, and acted in over 140 films, 120 of which were blockbusters. She starred in one Hindi film, Izzat, opposite Bollywood superstar Dharmendra in 1968.

During the 1960s and 1970s, she starred opposite M G Ramachandran in a number of successful films. This forged a bond between the two, which led MGR to introduce her to politics when he was chief minister of Tamil Nadu. Jayalalithaa joined MGR’s All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in 1982, and was appointed the party’s propaganda secretary the following year.She represented the AIADMK in the Rajya Sabha between 1984 and 1989. She was elected after MGR wanted her in New Delhi for her fluency in English and knowledge of several languages.

When Ramachandran became unwell in 1984, it is said that Jayalalithaa attempted to take over the position of chief minister. This led to a split in the party: one faction backed Ramachandran’s wife Janaki, while the other supported Jaya as his political heir. After MGR passed away in 1987, his party split into two factions – one behind Jayalalithaa, and the other behind MGR’s widow, Janaki Ramachandran. Janaki stepped aside after Jayalalithaa’s faction won 27 seats in the 1989 Assembly election – 25 more than Janaki’s.

In 1989, Jayalaltihaa was elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. She became the first woman to be appointed Leader of the Opposition. In the same year, the two factions of AIADMK merged and unanimously accepted Jayalalithaa as their leader.

During her term as Leader of the Opposition, DMK MLAs molested Jayalalithaa and nearly disrobed her while the house was in session. Media coverage of her emerging from the assembly in a torn saree, and her own comparison of the ordeal to Draupadi’s cheerharan, won immense sympathy from the public.

In 1991, Jayalalithaa became the first female(and the youngest) chief minister of Tamil Nadu to serve a full term.

Jayalalithaa timeline

Jayalalithaa Timeline

Freebies by Amma

Jayalalithaa also took the personal branding of state services to a whole new level with subsidised Amma canteens, mineral water, salt and cement on top of freebies like induction stoves, laptops, milch cows, mixer grinders and even gold coins. That is certainly an innovation in the Indian political landscape, blazing a trail that other states and even the Centre have followed. Equally impressively , she helped her state achieve a competitive diversity of industry and services. During her first stint as chief minister, for example, she pulled off a coup by getting Ford to invest in the state ­ which paid off in terms of Tamil Nadu developing into one of India’s premier auto hubs. If Tamil Nadu is today one of India’s top industrialised states, with social indicators to match, Jayalalithaa contributed massively .

Amma Freebies by Jayalalithaa

Amma Freebies by Jayalalithaa

Wedding of Jayalalitha’s foster son

The obscenely lavish wedding of Jayalalithaa’s ‘foster son’ Sudhakaran (whom she later disowned) holds the record for being the largest wedding banquet (incurring taxpayers a massive Rs 10 crore bill), attended by over 1,50,000 guests. VN Sudhakaran, a hitherto unknown face in Tamil Nadu politics was suddenly adopted by Jayalalithaa in 1995. At the time of announcement, Sudhakaran was betrothed to legendary actor Sivaji Ganesan’s granddaughter Satyavati and the marriage was held in September 1995. The 28-year-old nephew of Jayalalitha’s friend-turned-sister-turned-confidante, Sasikala Natarajan, hit a Vegas-style jackpot when he was plucked out of oblivion by the chief minister, declared her foster son, betrothed to actor Sivaji Ganesan’s granddaughter, Sathyalakshmi, and married off in the most expensive and controversial wedding in the state’s history. A rough estimate of the marriage expenditure places the figure at Rs 100 crore.

  • The wedding hall and dining rooms cost Rs 70 lakh.
  • Decorations – cut-outs, hoardings, papier-mache statues – and the illumination cost Rs 50 lakh.
  • There were two lakh tamboolam(return gift) packets. Cost: Rs 16 lakh.
  • VIP invitations included a silver plate with containers, a silk saree and silk dhoti – each worth Rs 20.000. Over 1,000 VIPs were invited.
  • Lunch for the VIP guests cost Rs 100 a head; each VIP was given bottled mineral water and a fresh hand-towel. Food for the 1,10.000 partymen cost Rs 40 per head.
  • Almost a 1,000 rooms at Madras top hotels were reserved for VIPs; the average rent per room is about Rs 3,000.
  • About 300 air-conditioned cars, rented at Rs 1,100 per day, were used.

All figures are rough estimates

After the extravagant wedding, things soured between Jayalalithaa and her foster son. Though she never spelt out the reason for disowning him, many reports from the time suggest that Sudhakaran took away crores from her Poes garden residence and never returned it. He was disowned by Jayalalithaa on August 25, 1996

The extravagant wedding spelled the beginning of Jayalalithaa’s downward spiral then. Public anger built up against her as crores were splurged on the wedding.  Jayalalithaa was routed in the 1996 election and was jailed on corruption charges. In the Disproportionate Asset case against her, Judge Cunha found that of the total expenditure at around Rs 8 crore, expenses borne by Jayalalithaa were Rs 3 crore.

Disproportionate Asset case against Jayalalithaa

Jayalalithaa was convicted for misusing her office during her tenure of 1991-96, especially her foster son lavish marriage in 1996 and to amass properties worth more than ₹66.65 crores (10 million USD). The assets under the purview of the case are the farm houses and bungalows in Chennai, agricultural land in Tamil Nadu, a farm house in Hyderabad, a tea estate in the Nilgiris, valuable jewelry, industrial sheds, cash deposits and investments in banks and a fleet of luxury cars.A raid in her Poes garden residence in 1997 recovered 800 kg (1,800 lb) silver, 28 kg (62 lb) gold, 750 pairs of shoes, 10,500 sarees, 91 watches and other valuables. The valuables were kept in a vault in Reserve Bank of India in Chennai. Opposition parties petitioned to request the court to take the control of the assets, but the special judge John Michael Cunha who inspected the assets on 7 January 2014, ordered the assets to be transferred to Bangalore.

The trial went on for 18 years and was transferred to Bangalore from Chennai. The judgement was pronounced on 27 September 2014 in the Special Court which convicted all four accused namely Jayalalithaa, Sasikala Natarajan, Ilavarasi and V.N. Sudhakaran and sentenced all to four years simple imprisonment. While Jayalalithaa was fined ₹100 crores, the other three were fined ₹10 crore each. The case had political implications as it was the first case where a ruling Chief minister had to step down on account of a court sentence. She was convicted for the third time overall and was forced to step down from the Chief Minister’s office for the second time. She was also the seventh politician and the first MLA from the state and third overall to be disqualified after the Supreme Court judgment in July 2013 on the Representation of People’s Act that prevents convicted politicians from holding office.

In May 2015, Justice C.R. Kumaraswamy of the Karnataka High Court overturned the trial court’s verdict and acquitted Jayalalithaa and others of all charges. This paved the way for Jayalalithaa’s return to power as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on the 23rd of May, 2015.

 

Disproportionate Asset case against Jayalalithaa

Disproportionate Asset case against Jayalalithaa

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