In a lengthy report that criticises at least one senior government official and VK Sasikala, the close assistant of the politician who lived with her, a retired judge ruled that J Jayalalithaa’s death in 2016 after being admitted to a prestigious Chennai hospital warranted investigation. Continue Reading
Two prominent Hindu organisations Hindu Aikya Vedi and Sabarimala Karma Samithi have called for ‘Hartal’ in the state of Kerala today, to protest against the arrest of Hindu Aikya Vedi president Sasikala, who was taken into the police custody last night denying her right to worship in the famous hill temple of South India Sabarimala. […]Continue Reading
The Election commission of India has finally announced the dates of the much-awaited by-election in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu today. The by-election for the Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly constituency, located in the heart of Chennai, is likely to take place on December 21. The election gains more political prominence, as the two powerful […]Continue Reading
Prompting the AIADMK cadres to attempt some unacceptable forms of protest like the self-immolation, the Income Tax department has conducted raids in the house of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, which is situated at Poes Garden in Chennai. The I-T officials have claimed that they got secret information that some people tried […]Continue Reading
After the conclusion of the five-days-long Income Tax department search operation in which several documents, money, diamonds and pieces of jewellery were recovered from the places belonging to the relatives of jailed AIADMK leader Sasikala, the I-T department has summoned several close relatives of the leader to sign the papers related to the raids. As […]Continue Reading
In a move which is seen by many as an attempt to strengthen the position of the, so called, Mannargudi mafia, in the AIADMK party and Tamil Nadu politics, the Sasikala’s nephew, TTV Dinakaran, has been named by the party as the candidate for the RK nagar by-election. Just hours before Sasikala, the late […]Continue Reading
AIADMK General Secretary Sasikala was convicted by The Supreme Court today in the more than a decade old disproportionate assets case. The verdict place an end for her from becoming the Chief Minister of the state. Upholding the trail court order, the SC set aside the High Court judgment which had acquitted Sasikala and former chief […]Continue Reading