Both T.T.V Dhinakaran and Thanga Tamilselvan used to be in the AIADMK once, and it was Dhinakaran who had introduced the latter to Jayalalithaa and aunt Sasikala, who controlled the party apparatus back then.
Sasikala’s exit gives AIADMK a fighting chance in TN
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If the aide to former CM Jayalalthaa hadn’t quit politics, the AMMK would have certainly cut into the AIADMK’s votes
With the Assembly elections scene hotting up, last week the spotlight shifted from West Bengal, where one TMC leader after another is making a sprint to the BJP, to Tamil Nadu, with VK Sasikala dramatically announcing her resignation from politics.
This has certainly breathed new life into an election that had been, till then, tilting in favour of DMK’s MK Stalin.
A larger-than-life figure in TN politics for at least three decades, even though she wielded her power from former AIADMK chief and TN Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s shadow, the smart ones in the party and the bureaucracy always strived to be on the right side of Chinna Amma.
AIADMK leans on PM Modi’s visit to shore up poll prospects
February 13, 2021
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But the BJP has thus far failed to convince its alliance partner to patch up with Sasikala in the run-up to the Assembly polls Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Chennai on Sunday underlines the southward incline of the BJP which has thus far failed to convince Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palniswami to reconcile with VK Sasikala to beef up the ruling coalition’s prospects in the upcoming Assembly elections.
The PM would be addressing a public function in the Tamil Nadu capital on Sunday to inaugurate the Chennai Metro Rail Phase-I extension and a host of other projects, an event hailed by the AIADMK as symbolic of the “harmony” between the Centre and the State for the welfare of people. But the two alliance partners are not on the same page so far as getting back Sasikala is concerned.
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