BJP distances itself from Maneka Gandhi's letter to Jayalalithaa

The Bharatiya Janata Party distanced itself from Union Minister Maneka Gandhi's letter to convicted AIADMK Chief J Jayalalithaa after her release from Bangalore jail. The party said the letter from Maneka Gandhi is personal and should not be viewed as BJP's policy.

BJP Secreatary Muralidhar Rao said that, a person in Cabinet writing a letter should not be seen as policy of party. Whatever will happen will happen through legal proceedings. She may be having faith that Jayalalithaa is innocent, she may have expressed her personal faith. The BJP always said that in this case we have to respect judgement. If it is a party stand I would have decalred, our all India spokesperson would have declared.

In her letter, Maneka Gandhi had said that she was sorry that Jayalalithaa was imprisoned and extended her support.

Jayalalithaa, who returned to Chennai over the weekend, also got a welcome-back letter from superstar Rajinikanth. Interestingly, BJP is trying to get Rajinikanth into BJP. Political Observers in the State think this is the message for BJP that he is not interested in politics.

Jayalalithaa thanked both of them for their letters. The Supreme Court on October 17 granted bail to Jayalalithaa in 18-year-old disproportionate assets case and also suspended her sentence.