VK Sasikala

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Sasikala Natarajan, born as Vivekanandan Krishnaveni Sasikala on 18 August 1954, is an Indian politician who was briefly the Chief Minister-elect of Tamil Nadu in February 2017. She was a close confidante of J. Jayalalithaa, the late chief minister of Tamil Nadu, who headed the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) from 1989 until her death in 2016. She is also the aunt of AMMK general secretary T. T. V. Dhinakaran. She is noted for her short-lived cult of personality in Tamil Nadu as a successor of Jayalalithaa before being convicted by the Supreme Court of India for money laundering. Her cadres revered her as their "Chinnamma" (Small Mother) and "Puratchi Thaai" (Revolutionary mother) After Jayalalithaa's death, the Minister of Finance O. Paneerselvam, who had served as the acting Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu during Jayalalithaa's hospitalization, was sworn in as the official Chief Minister. However, the AIADMK general council elected Sasikala as the party's interim secretary-general, revealing a factional split within the party. In February 2017, the AIADMK MLAs subsequently elected Sasikala as the party's leader in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, making her the Chief Minister-elect, following which Paneerselvam tendered his resignation. Sasikala submitted her chief-ministerial petition to the Tamil Nadu Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao, shortly after which a two-bench Supreme Court jury pronounced Sasikala guilty in a disproportionate-assets case involving Jayalalithaa, and ordered her immediate arrest, effectively ending Sasikala's chief ministerial ambitions. She was then imprisoned in the Bangalore Central Prison, Karnataka. From prison, she selected Edappadi K. Palaniswami as the next Chief Minister. Palaniswami and other ministers removed her from the secretary-general post and dismissed her from the party in September 2017, after reuniting with the Paneerselvam faction. Sasikala was released in January 2021, and she sued Palaniswami, Paneerselvam, and associates for unlawful expulsion from the...