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Jaya returns to Madras tonight

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazagham general secretary J Jayalalitha will return to Madras tonight, after a fortnight-long stay in Delhi where she had engineered the fall of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. She has, however, failed to fulfil her mission of fashioning an alternative government at the Centre.

Jayalalitha, who had left Madras on April 12, triggered a chain of events after she formally withdrew her party's support to the Vajpayee government on April 14. This had forced President K R Narayanan to advise Vajpayee to seek a vote of confidence.

While Vajpayee lost the confidence motion, Jayalalitha and those in the Opposition had to admit defeat as no party or combination could mobilise the requisite numbers for an alternative government.

She returns to Madras, winning new friends in the Left Front, but her party's tie-up with the Congress is yet to take shape.

UNI

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