Tamil Nadu Waits for Sasikala to Return as AIADMK Gets Jitters Over Leadership Contest VK Sasikala, who was the aide of former T...

Tamil Nadu Waits for Sasikala to Return as AIADMK Gets Jitters Over Leadership Contest

VK Sasikala, who was the aide of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha, will return on February 8 to the state after serving her jail term. While it is expected that she will be welcomed with a grand party, the move has rattled many in the ruling AIADMK, with the tussle over the party's leadership expected to raise its head once again.

Top ministers of the AIADMK government met the state police chief on Thursday evening to protest against the use of the AIADMK flag on Sasikala's car when she discharged from a Bengaluru hospital last week. They also lodged a complaint on the issue.

Sasikala, who has been serving time in the Bengaluru Central Jail for the last four years, was discharged on January 27. But being infected with the coronavirus, she was recuperating at a Bengaluru hospital, and later moved to a resort in the city to rest and recover her health.

She moved from the hospital to the resort in a car that sported the AIADMK flag, at a time when the party has completely distanced itself from her saying that she is "not even a member of the it".