Mere paas amMa hai...

In a surprising move, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK leader O. Panneerselvam said Jaya's spirit has asked him to reveal the truth and he was forced to quit as state chief minister. 

Launching a scathing attack against Sasikala, he also said he is ready to withdraw his resignation if people of Tamil Nadu and party cadres so desired. 

Breaking his silence, Panneerselvam said: "People of Tamil Nadu need to be told truth, I want to reveal the truth," O Panneerselvam said after paying tribute at Jayalalithaa's memorial."

Amma can’t help... Ooops!!!

Panneerselvam became a lame duck chief minister since December 29 when Sasikala was appointed as the party general secretary. Even otherwise, colleagues in the cabinet paid scant respect to him as they all went to Veda Nilayam to get their daily orders from Chinnamma and her non-resident-husband Natarajan.

The fate of Panneerselvam had been sealed on Thursday night itself when one of the nephews of Sasikala called him over telephone and asked him to get rid of Sheela Balakrishnan, the advisor to the government of Tamil Nadu and the two secretaries Venkataramanan and Ramalingam. The last named left the chief minister’s office with tears in his eyes. @PGurus

Karan-Arjun Returns

The arrest of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed - the mastermind of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai in which 166 people were killed -- is a "policy decision", the Pakistan Army has said. The house arrest of the terror chief had started yesterday evening following an order from Pakistan's home ministry. 

The Lashkar chief, who is also the head of the front organization Jaamat-ud-Dawa, has blamed his house arrest on the growing rapport between newly elected US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. @PGurus

Secret of Mallya’s success revealed

BJP has alleged that former prime minister Manmohan Singh and UPA's finance minister P Chidambaram favoured Kingfisher Airlines head Vijay Mallya, a charge the two Congress leaders dismissed. 

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra produced two letters addressed to Singh and another to Chidambaram to back his allegation that the UPA government intervened to facilitate loans to Mallya's airline in 2011 and 2013 when it was in a financial mess. @Pgurus

Dostana of Crime and Corruption

A united front joint press conference and roadshow here on Sunday, Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav said they were like the “two wheels of a cycle”

“Our alliance is like the confluence of Ganga and Yamuna, out of which the Saraswati of development will flow… We have similarities and differences. We want to contest the elections on similarities, and will also have to agree to some compromises,” said Rahul, addressing the hour-long press conference. “Yeh dil ka alliance hai, mil ke jeetenge (It is an alliance of hearts, we will win together).” @Pgurus