I will make Jayalalithaa eat humble pie again: Subramanian Swamy
The News Minute| September 8, 2014| 6.30 pm IST
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy said today that he will make Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa "eat the humble pie again." He was responding to questions from The News Minute about the defamation case which was filed by J Jayalalithaa against him under Section 500 and 501 of the Indian Penal Code at a sessions court in Chennai.
Jayalalithaa’s decision to sue Swamy comes after a letter-match between the two leaders. Jayalalithaa had written to PM Modi saying she was distressed with Subramanian Swamy’s interview to a media organisation in which he said he had advised Sri Lankan government to release Tamil fishermen and not their boats.
Dr Swamy retaliated with a letter to the PM alleging that Jayalalithaa was concerned about mechanised boats as they belonged to VIP’s including her aide Sasikala and DMK leader T R Baalu.Dr Swamy alleged Jayalalithaa appropriated his hard work on Mulla Periyar Dam as her achievement. He had also alleged that Jayalalithaa claimed she saved Ram Setu.
Dr Swamy told The News Minute that he thinks politicians who file defamation cases have no knowledge of the law and they are at the mercy of the lawyers. ‘I have made her eat the humble pie in defamation cases many time in the past, she will have the same fate on this one too,’ he reacted when asked about the defamation case.
He says that , he ‘would not have bothered her, but she wrote to the prime minister about the fisherman’, which made him retaliate. ‘I got the fisherman released and not the boats because the boats belong to the rich, so she wrote again to the prime minister saying the sentiments of the fishermen were hurt - seems to be habituated to writing letters.,’ and added that Jayalalithaa must be a sadist or has some kind of a Pavlovian conditioning that makes her keep filing cases.
Dr Swamy referred to the 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan case in the US and said, "Many countries including the UK have applied the same law that the onus of establishing defamation is now on the person who is suing.and there is a case log on it."
"In the 1990's she had filed almost 40 defamation cases against me in Tamil Nadu. I went to the Supreme Court and got them quashed and she had to accept the public humiliation. After that she did a somersault and visited me at my residence in Chennai (1996-1997) and we became allies and I believe Sasikala didn't like that.now I think I have some incomplete task from the 1990s which I have to complete - I am having fun," he concluded.http://www.thenewsminute.com/side_headlines/50
JAYA FILES DEFAMATION CASE AGAINST SWAMY
Tuesday, 09 September 2014 | Kumar Chellappan | Chennai
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday filed a defamation case against Subramanian Swamy, BJP’s Strategic Affairs Committee chairman, for certain remarks against her which were published in Dinamalar, a popular Tamil daily. The petition, filed by a public prosecutor on behalf of the CM in a city court states that some of the statements made by Dr Swamy in an interview given to the daily were defamatory.
Dr Swamy had told the newspaper that he appealed to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the release of fishermen from Tamil Nadu held in Sri Lanka because representatives of fishermen had pleaded with him to get them released. “Since there was no requests from the owners of the boats seized by the Sri Lankan Navy, I requested only for the release of the fishermen. The boats belonged to powerful leaders like DMK’s TR Baalu and Jayalalithaa’s friend Sasikala,” Swamy had told in the interview.
The senior BJP leader has been quoted by the newspaper as telling that Jayalalithaa has not done anything for the fishermen, Mullaperiyar Dam or the Ram Sethu issues other than writing letters to the Prime Minister and getting it published in news papers.
He pointed out that it was he who filed the case demanding an increase in the water level in Mullaperiyar Dam from 132 ft to 142 ft . “The Supreme Court had ruled in 2006 that the water level in the dam should be increased to 142 ft. Similarly, it was me who approached the court against the demolition of Ram Setu for constructing the sethusamudram Shipping Channel and won the case. But Jayalalithaa is appropriating all credit,” Swamy had said.
Jayalalithaa, in one of her letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi had taken objections to some of the comments made by Dr Swamy about the arrest of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy.
“I welcome the opportunity to cross examine her and prove there was no defamation. Then Ill file a malicious prosecution case and sue her for damages. She has not learnt from all the defamation cases she lost to me in the 1990s,” said Swamy about the case filed against him.