Sasikala’s exit gives AIADMK a fighting chance in TN × 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.