However, Jayalalitha never forgave him for the voting day fiasco. She denied him nomination in the 1999 Lok Sabha election. A year later, she expelled Muthiah and other senior leaders S.

One was the move to jail Indira Gandhi; and the other, to disqualify her from Lok Sabha membership ... When the Tamilians handed Jayalalitha a humiliating defeat in the polls, they punished ...

Jayalalitha was around ... It lost badly in the 2019 Lok Sabha & 2021 assembly elections and by all accounts, is set to lose badly again in 2024. Does a similar fate lie ahead for the BJD?