Alliance not the deciding factor

COIMBATORE: Coimbatore’s Mayor-designate and former Minister S M Velusamy was quick to interpret the verdict handed over to him by the voters on Friday as a mandate for CM J Jayalalithaa’s good governance. “The result of the Mayoral elections only proves that a political alliance is not the deciding factor in Tamil Nadu. Instead this would serve as proof that it is because of Amma (Jayalalithaa) that the alliance parties had commanded respect among the public (earlier),” Velusamy said on Friday.