Jaya Amma Kee Jai

Topic started by JJ_FAN (@ 200.73.16.135) on Fri Jul 18 09:59:44 .
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This is the mail I got from a tamil friend working in B'lore.
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There was this teachers strike in TN and Jaya Amma
didnt budge. The teachers were demanding full cash
payment of gratuity and encashment of earned leave.
She arrested all of the striking employees and sacked
them. Too cool. The teachers continued striking, she
got more of them arrested and sacked more of them
showing no signs of negotiating or coming down. She
got temporary staffers to replace the teachers instead
of budging. And all of this in two three days instead
of waiting weeks. Finally the teachers called off the
strike. I was really impressed with this. In fact to
date, the teachers havent been taken back on service I
think. No indian state govt has displayed such guts.

She has been rock solid this term. The other month,
she kicked Pope's a$$ big time. Jaya has banned
religion conversions in TN and Pope commented on it
being not right and people to be given the choice of
religion. Jaya called a press conf and asked Pope to
mind his own business. Really! In her words "The Pope
has no business interfering in a democratically
elected state govt's decisions". One of the journos
asked some question in response. She said "This is not
a Q&A answer. I just want to send this message to
Pope". And all this with a poker face. Some Christians
went on strike, she didnt do the usual "I was
misquoted bit".

And before this she kicked Karnataka CM SM Krishna's
ass big time. Krishna was trying to act strong, she
adopted the legal route and really embarassed him. Big
time. Imagine a CM making a statement like "I wont
release water under any circumstances, I am ready to
go to jail for not doing so" and releasing it in a
week ;-).

I have always maintained India needs 2 good dictator
terms who disciplines everyone, in democracy the
people here wont improve. This incident only
strengthens my opinion. I am not suggesting Jaya be
the one :)

Jaya amma ki jai.

Cheers,


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