Jayaram Jayalalithaa was an Indian politician and film actress who served six times as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for over fourteen years between 1991 and 2016
Komalavalli, Indian film actress, politician, and government official who long served as the leader of the All India Dravidian Progressive Federation ( AIADMK), a political party based in Tamil Nadu state, India. Known simply by the name Jayalalitha, she served three terms (1991–96, 2002–06, and 2011–14) as chief minister (head of government) of Tamil Nadu.

She was born into a Brahman family near the southern Indian city of Mysore (now in Karnataka state). Her father died when she was young, and her mother, a film actress, moved the family first to Bangalore (Bengaluru) and then to Madras (now Chennai). Her family’s poor financial conditions forced her to quit her studies after completing secondary school. Although she had acted in a film while still in school, she now pursued that vocation full-time, becoming a highly successful star and acting in some 130 films between 1964 and 1980. Her success in the movie industry was in large part the result of her association with the iconic Tamil-language actor Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran (popularly known as MGR), with whom she made more than two dozen movies. MGR was also a politician, who founded the AIADMK in 1972 and from 1977 to 1987 was the chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
She joined the AIADMK in 1982 and quickly rose through the party ranks. In 1983 she was made the propaganda secretary of the party, and a year later she won a seat in the Rajya Sabha (upper chamber of the Indian parliament). Following the death of MGR in late 1987, the AIADMK underwent a split, with MGR’s wife, Janaki Ramachandran, and Jayalalitha each heading competing factions of the party. The rift was healed in a few years, however, after the two groups had merged back together and Janaki Ramachandran had left politics. Jayalalitha became the leader of the party.

In Tamil Nadu Jayalalitha’s AIADMK faced a bitter rival in the Dravidian Progressive Federation (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam; DMK). In 1989 Jayalalitha was elected to the state legislative assembly, where she led the opposition to the then-ruling DMK. An incident in the chamber, where she was allegedly physically and verbally assaulted by DMK members, steeled her resolve to bring the AIADMK back to power. In the 1991 state assembly elections, the party won an overwhelming victory, and Jayalalitha began her first term as chief minister, heading a coalition government with the Indian National Congress (Congress Party). Her tenure was controversial, however, marred by allegations of corruption and misappropriation of official funds. In 1995 an extravagant wedding that she had organized for her foster son, alleged to have cost millions of dollars, sparked harsh criticism from the media.
Jayalalithaa donated gold jewelleries she had to the then Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. In the 2016 assembly election, she became the first Tamil Nadu chief minister. That September, she fell severely ill and, following 75 days of hospitalisation, died on 5 December 2016 due to cardiac arrest.
List of schemes implemented by Jayalalithaa. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is well known for populist schemes.

Most of them were either free or highly subdised. Crores of people, especially women, have benefited from these in her two-decade-long reign.The cradle baby scheme. Thalikku thangam thittam. Amma canteen. Amma Laptops.
Amma water. Amma baby care kit. Amma grinder, mixie, table fan. Amma insurance. Amma pharmacy.