AIADMK’s poster culture is back as Amma gives way to Chinnamma

Mangalore Today News Network

Chennai,Dec 18, 2016 : AIADMK is in the need of a new leader and there is a growing chorus within the party supporting Sasikala, former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’ aide, to take over the mantle of AIADMK in Tamil Nadu.

 

The posters supporting Sasikala describe her as "Chinnamma", as she is called by party workers, and request her to take up the leadership of AIADMK and guide the party.

In Tiruchirapalli, AIADMK district functionaries had organised an indefinite fast, demanding that Sasikala take over the party.

After the demise of Jayalalithaa on December 5, top party leaders, including party presidium chairman E Madusudanan, party treasurer and Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, and Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker M Thambidurai had urged her take on the top post of party General Secretary and lead the party.



To emphasise on the matter, more and more creative posters have started to sprout across the city. Sasikala in her new avatar as ’Chinnamma’ is considered as the savior of the party by the ’secondary leaders’ and they insist the cadres to accept the fact.

And what better a way to instill it than using the AIADMK’s most trusted poster culture!

These posters now give more space for Sasikala than Jayalalithaa and of which, one such interesting poster was carrying a potrait of Sasikala wearing a white saree with AIADMK flag as border and surprisingly wearing the same style bindi as Jayalalithaa.

The posters don’t fail to carry the verses calling Chinnamma as the a boon received by Amma’s penance and that the two crore AIADMK cadres should follow her.

Sasikala, 60, had been a close aide of Jayalalithaa for three decades and was always seen as a power centre in AIADMK.

State ministers had also expressed support to Sasikala in interviews to Jaya TV, a pro AIADMK Tamil TV channel, and had urged her to lead AIADMK and scotch "rumours" at this critical juncture.

On December 14, party functionaries from six districts had called on Sasikala and urged her to guide AIADMK.

It is interesting to note that AIADMK with its fierce poster culture did not raise a single banner on the day Jayalalithaa was buried and instead it was DMK which raised one in her praise.



Courtesy:Indiatoday