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MUMBAI:
India's leading English news channel manages to get the enigmatic
Jayalalithaa to speak one on one after a three year silence.
It's
clearly the scoop of scoop in terms of high profile television interviews.
Jayalalithaa,
who many believed would never give a TV interview again after having
a verbal skirmish on the sets of a BBC interview more than three
years back, has spoken her mind out to TIMES NOW. It was a race
to the finish, with all news channels trying to outdo each other
in getting the charismatic lady to speak, but TIMES NOW outdid others
at the last minute.
The
interview is, according to the channel, being telecast on Sunday,
on the flagship interview show "Frankly Speaking with Arnab".
The channel is not revealing yet what the reclusive politician has
said in the interview, but it is believed that Jaya has gone public
with her national ambitions for the first time ever. That should
be interesting, because Jayalalithaa is known to have prime ministerial
aspirations and very strong views on Sonia Gandhi.
The
scoop was recorded in utmost secrecy by the channel in Chennai sometime
this week, and comes just days after Jayalalithaa made a determined
but unsuccessful attempt to get President Kalam re-elected for a
second term. This is the second big scoop for TIMES NOW recently,
after Benazir Bhutto went public with plans of returning to active
politics on the channel last month.
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