NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, APR 6
The name of Thyagathalaivi V K Sasikala, confidante of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, has been ‘removed’ from the voters list and it is an ‘injustice,’ her legal counsel said here on Monday.
She was sad about it and legal action would be initiated against the official responsible, he said.
As Tamil Nadu goes to the polls on Tuesday, the name of Sasikala, which figured in the Thousand Lights Assembly constituency in Chennai, was deleted, N Raja Senthoor Pandian said.
She was previously a resident of Jayalalithaa’s Poes Garden residence, which was taken over by the AIADMK government for converting it into a memorial.
The neighbourhood falls under the Thousand Lights segment.
Sasikala, some time after her release from prison in January, had said that she would stay off politics. She had served a four year sentence in a disproportionate assets case.
Pandian told a Tamil television channel that officials informed him that Sasikala’s name was deleted on 31 January 2019, following revision and ahead of the Lok Sabha polls that year.
