It was New Year, a day when political leaders would extend greetings wishing people prosperity and happiness. But 2013 was different. Just a fortnight earlier, the country was shaken by the ‘Nirbhaya’ case in which a 23-year-old paramedical student was brutally gang-raped on a bus in the national capital, New Delhi. The young woman was air-lifted to the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore for treatment after which she died on December 29, 2012.
Amid a surcharged atmosphere and widespread outrage, the political climate was not ideal to usher in the New Year with greetings. So, on that day, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa chose to respond appropriately to the political situation.
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