INDIA SUMMARIZED

CHENNAI: Chief minister and   AIADMK   supremo J   Jayalalithaa   had opposition members squirming in their seats and the treasury benches sniggering when she taught Congress MLAs in the state assembly a few lessons about their own party history. It was a class she took with great relish, reading out from a voluminous book, titled 'The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi-Volume 90,' published by the Union ministry of information and broadcasting in 1984.   A day after the five Congress MLAs in the assembly demanded proof for a statement made by a state minister in the assembly about a well-known fact about the party's history that  Mahatma Gandhi  wanted to disband it immediately after independence, Jayalalithaa produced the book in the House to make her point. Liberally quoting from it, she said, "Though split into two, India having attained political independence through means devised by the Indian National Congress, the Congress in its present...