AIADMK supremo Ms Jayalalitha is one leader who uses the LTTE%u2019s name the most, more than its supporters. She had twice benefited from using the Tigers%u2019 name. In 1991, she succeeded in dismissing the DMK government, through claims that it was supporting the activities of the LTTE. Again, after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi by the Tigers, she swept to power, following a sympathy wave for the Congress-AIADMK alliance. Having once tasted blood and toppled the DMK government using the LTTE card, it had become customary for her to use it again and again, to settle political scores against her political opponents when she was in power, or as a tool to destabilise the government when she finds herself in the opposition. Now, she had started using the Tigers%u2019 name for another objective, to drive a wedge between the Congress and the DMK. With her daily statements on increasing LTTE activities and demanding action on supporters of the movement, some of whom are allies of the DMK, she had nearly succeeded in her mission. Local Congress leaders, who are already sore with the DMK for not sharing power with them, had already started making loud noises against its ally, also a partner in the UPA government at the Centre.
