Rajinikanth pays tribute to Jayalalithaa: ‘I had hurt her, she lost polls due to me’

Rajinikanth called Jayalalithaa a lady with a golden heart and said when he invited her to his daughter Aishwarya’s wedding, she harboured no ill-will and graciously accepted it. “My daughter wanted to arrange her wedding at my house in Poes Garden. With the chief minister living next door, how can I not invite her to the wedding? But, I had my doubts that she might not come,” he recalled.

“Amma saw the invitation and said the same day there was the wedding of one of her party members. But she said that she will ask her party member to postpone his wedding and surely come to my daughter’s wedding,” he said.

Rajinikanth said Jayalalithaa surpassed her teacher, MG Ramachandran in politics. Calling her the Kohinoor diamond, he said challenges and difficulties only made her stronger. “Now, that Kohinoor diamond rests besides MGR,” he said, adding that she was a blessed human being.

Jayalalithaa passed away earlier this month in a private hospital, where she had been undergoing treatment for more than two months. The Nadigar Sangam also paid tribute to Cho Ramaswamy, a noted political journalist and actor, who died while he was under medical care, just hours after Jayalalithaa was laid to rest. Cho shared a great equation with Jayalalithaa and Rajinikanth.

Rajinikanth, who turned 66 today, has requested his fans not celebrated his birthday in the light of the passing of Jayalalithaa and Cho.