AIADMK wants Peace Nobel for Jayalalithaa

Party wants her birthday to be marked as Farmers’ Day

Authors of the resolutions adopted at the AIADMK General Council meeting did not do their homework.

By proposing the late Chief Minister’s name for the Nobel Peace Prize and demanding that her birthday, which falls on February 24, be declared as National Farmers’ Day, they came off as poorly prepared since none of these seem to be possible.

Resolution number 11 adopted at the General Council states, “This council resolves to take all efforts to bestow Ramon Magsaysay Award, popularly known as Asia’s Noble Prize, on our Chief Minister

Puratchi Thalaivi Amma for her service to humanity and the Nobel Prize for Peace for her efforts to eradicate poverty by feeding the needy (through Amma Canteens).”

A person’s name cannot be nominated for a Nobel Prize posthumously and a person can be awarded the prize posthumously only if he/she had already been nominated before February 1 of the same year, which was true of Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Nobel Prize in Literature 1931) and Dag Hammarskjöld (Nobel Peace Prize, 1961).

The authors of the resolution seem to have not done their research properly since it is a well-know fact that the Nobel Committee had in 1948 decided not to award the prize to Mahatma Gandhi, who passed away in January that year.

Resolution number 9 states that as the late Jayalalithaa always called herself a “farmer”, and since she has “brought smiles on the faces of farmers across Tamil Nadu through her innovative schemes”, her birthday should be observed as National Farmers’ Day. This is again a goof-up the Centre already observes the first Friday of December each year as the National Farmers Day.

“This again shows the legacy of the cult behaviour that the AIADMK has been practicing. I don’t think Jayalalithaa has done anything specific for the farming community. I don’t see any logic in the demand for observing her birthday as Farmers’ Day,” Manivannan, professor at the University of Madras said.

With due credit to her, she did fight for water rights and they (AIADMK) could pay tribute by asking for a Water Day

— MANIVANNAN, Professor