New Delhi, April 17 :    New Delhi, April 17:  Chandragupta and Chanakya. Jayalalitha and her political guru for the past two years, Subramanian Swamy. There may be many who mattered in bringing down the Vajpayee government today, but there is no denial that the impetus came from the imperious and slighted Jayalalitha and the one-man demolition squad Subramanian Swamy. Together they staked their political careers and moved with single-minded purpose to force out the Vajpayee government. They did have the last laugh. Swamy ? for once modest ?underplayed his role in the topple bid. The exercise would not have begun without his Ashoka Hotel tea party on March 29 where he brought Sonia Gandhi and Jayalalitha together for the first time. ?Three ladies ? Lakshmi, Saraswati and Durga ? felled the Vajpayee government,? Swamy said this afternoon, referring to Sonia Gandhi, Jayalalitha and BSP leader Mayavati. ?Jayalalitha took bold steps, Sonia Gandhi took the initiative and Mayavati made it possible,? said Aaj ka Arjun, who had sworn to finish the ?communal? government. Swamy had described himself as Arjun when asked to elaborate on the alternative configuration. He had said like Arjun, who just aimed at the eye of the bird, he targeted only the Vajpayee government. For more than a month now, Swamy has held parleys with Sonia Gandhi, H.S. Surjeet, Laloo Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav and other leaders to work out a strategy. Swamy had tried to dislodge the government last year and had gone on record saying Vajpayee will not unfurl the national flag on August 15. But BJP managers moved swiftly and split the ADMK alliance in Tamil Nadu. A sulking Jayalalitha-Swamy duo did a tactical retreat. While Swamy?s grudge was that the RSS had prevented him from getting a berth in the Vajpayee government, Jayalalitha was bitter because the Prime Minister categorically ruled out dismissal of Karunanidhi government and that the BJP split her alliance in Tamil Nadu, weaning away PMK, MDMK and Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress. Describing the government?s defeat as a ?red letter day? for secularism, Swamy said the daring steps taken by Jayalalitha helped bring down the government. ?Sonia Gandhi deserves thanks, while Mayavati should be complimented for voting against the government,? Swamy said. ?Emergence of women power augurs well for the 21st Century,? he said, but parried the question whether the next Prime Minister should be a woman. Women politicians proved to be Vajpayee?s nemesis. Isolated from Uttar Pradesh politics, Vajpayee had no personal equation with Mayavati. And Jayalalitha refused his overtures time and again. Jayalalitha savoured the day in her Maurya Sheraton Chandragupta suite and said little after the victory. She was still waiting for word from Sonia Gandhi following the crucial CWC meeting to chart out the contours of the Congress-led coalition government. Swamy did all the talking. ?Today is the day of the nation?s liberation from fascist and communal forces,? he said. Asked how Mayavati changed her mind overnight, Swamy said: ?Even if I am aware of it, I will not reveal it.? The Vajpayee government was kept on its toes by Jayalalitha and Swamy since being sworn in on March 18, 1998. Vajpayee used all his trouble-shooters ? Jaswant Singh, Pramod Mahajan and George Fernandes ? to placate the lady from Poes Garden. But Jayalalitha continued to torment the BJP. On September 15, 1998, she boycotted Vajpayee?s meeting in Chennai and organised a parallel rally at Tiruchirapalli. On March 28, she demanded the reinstatement of sacked navy chief Vishnu Bhagwat, shifting of Fernandes to a less sensitive post and endorsed the Congress? demand for a JPC probe into the controversy. Parliamentary affairs minister P.R. Kumaramangalam accelerated the process of her alienation when he criticised Jayalalitha for flouting coalition norms and said the ADMK could quit the government if it so desired.