I have absolute faith in the entertainment provided by the government of Tamil Nadu. If you thought you had seen it all, think again. The latest joke in town, state and country is the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. And this time the joke's not funny.

Dear Dr.JJ the "deity of lakhs and lakhs of AIADMK cadres", has been unseated. That Supreme Court has no respect the people's mandate. The AIADMK party workers are bemused. 'Amma' has told them not disrupt law and order. (The party workers wonder what to do.) JJ has surprised all including her party by selecting an entity rather a non-entity called O.Paneerselvam to be Tamil Nadu's brand new Chief Minister. Apparently even OP was shocked at being selected. OP's eyes moistened when asked to comment on his new job. (Now this could be explained as sheer gratitude or sheer terror. No one survives Amma's wrath. Her ex-foster son is now cooling his heels in the slammer after packets conveniently marked 'Heroin' were found in his house). Anyway JJ would have carefully selected OP as her successor. Poor guy. Now he has to survive everyone thinking of him as the most servile, spineless sycophant ever in AIADMK. JJ would have never selected him from the various fine specimens if he weren't the paragon of those very essential qualifications of an AIADMK party member. And Amma has chosen well. The first thing OP did after taking the oath was fall at her feet in true AIADMK fashion.

The rest of the country probably ridicules the people of Tamil Nadu for their powerful mandate that allowed (helped by a Governor whose decision led to her dismissal) a person with serious court cases pending to be the CM, then accepting a poof to be a puppet CM. JJ has ensured that the people have no respect for the Chief Minister. She should be careful for soon we will have no respect for the post itself. Being ruled by a mafia-style Prima Donna sort of a person is bad enough but being forced to call the Prima Donna's side-kick 'Chief Minister' is an insult.

Seriously since we as citizens have the right to elect maybe we should also have the right to un-elect a government. If governments can be forgiven huge blunders and scams and given a second chance seems fair that the citizens also should be allowed a chance to un-elect. All newly elected governments should function for a probationary period after which the performance will be reviewed before being allowed to continue governance. Sure, elections are expensive but then so are governments. We cannot have some chappie as the CM because the chief honcho has to first sort out her legal issues before she is allowed govern the state. The Supreme Court should be allowed to dissolve the more dysfunctional parties thus saving the states from being governed by them. (Note I use the term 'more' since all our political parties are more or less dysfunctional.) But this sham, in the first place, has been perpetrated by the people of Tamil Nadu on themselves. What was everyone smoking on Election Day?

And how does one respect a person who has no self, a man who quotes to the newspapers " I am only a stop-gap CM", "I am warming the seat". It's pathetic. His portrait does not yet hang in the government offices, no posters yet defacing the city and hey no TV. The Tamil Nadu media probably does not want to project the humiliation beyond the state. And being Amma's choice everyone knows that OP has precious little to say apart from the gems of self worth that he lets out.

So till Amma's wiles get her off in the courts of law the people of Tamil Nadu have to suffer the humiliation of a puppet regime where cabinet meetings are held at the residence of a lawless convict. Hey guys we are the new Bihar!