After Jayalalithaa Edict, Panneerselvam Becomes Tamil Nadu CM

Carrying posters with pictures of 'Amma', demonstrators from Hosur, Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts of Tamil Nadu staged noisy protests on Bangalore's outskirts.

"We won't go till we are allowed to meet Jayalalithaa. She did so much for our welfare. It is unfair to jail her," a group of women screamed.

Earlier Sunday, Jayalalithaa told a few cabinet ministers who called on her in jail to convene a meeting of all legislators in Chennai and elect a new leader to serve as chief minister, an AIADMK leader told IANS.

The meeting lasting a hour was held over breakfast in the visitors' room of the Bangalore Central Jail.

Jayalalithaa was jailed late Saturday after a special judge sentenced her to four years in prison for amassing wealth illegally when she was chief minister in 1991-96. She was also fined 100 crore.

Jayalalithaa's lawyers are expected to meet her later to discuss remedies to secure bail from the high court.

After spending Saturday night in a special cell in the jail's women's wing, the 66-year-old Jayalalithaa woke up at 5.30 Sunday and took a brisk walk on the lawn.

"She is fine. She had sugarless coffee and went through three Tamil newspapers and an English daily that her personal assistant brought for her," a jail official said.

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