24 June - J. Jayalalithaa is sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time.
Soon after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party (DMK) came into power in Tamil Nadu in 1996, it filed a series of corruption cases against the former Chief Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary J. Jayalalithaa, other ministers, and bureaucrats of her government.
In 2011, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalithaa, announced the construction of two new flyovers at Ukkadam and Athupalam to help decongest the Palakkad Road.
In April 2012 the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa, announced that a memorial for Dheeran Chinnamalai would be built at the place where he was hanged.
Later this case was to lead to the conviction of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for granting an illegal exemption to the hotel.
In the Parliament of India, Krishnagiri Lok Sabha Constituency is represented by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politician E.G. Sugavanam who is famous for defeating J. Jayalalithaa in the 1996 state assembly elections in the constituency Bargur.
He has been jailed for withholding information about sandal wood smuggler Veerappan during Jayalalitha's chief ministership.
In 1989, ADMK was split between Janaki faction and Jayalalithaa faction, and only the Janaki faction contested in this constituency.
Sasikala Natarajan (born 1957) is an confidante of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) politician and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalithaa.
Again, when the new AIADMK government came to power in 2011, the current Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, through the Governor Surjit Singh Barnala's address to the assembly, stated that the Chennai Monorail project of around 300 km will be revived and would supplement the existing metro rail systems that were implemented by the previous DMK government.
In the 1996 state elections, DMK came to power on strength of corruption charges against J.Jayalalithaa and the alliance with Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC), headed by G.K. Moopanar and supported by cine actor Rajinikanth.
At this junction, Natarajan requested V. S. Chandralekha, who was then the District Collector of South Arcot, to introduce his wife Sasikala to Jayalalithaa, who was then the Propaganda Secretary of the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.