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Thursday, April 22, 2021,
Chennai
Jayalalithaa's close aide Sasikala became the extra-constitutional authority and Tamil Nadu her fiefdom. Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden residence became a beehive of corruption as she and Sasikala set up at the residence, and acquired properties worth thousands of crores
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Thursday, November 9, 2017,
Chennai
T T V Dinakaran, Sasikala’s nephew and general secretary of an AIADMK faction has alleged that the IT raids conducted against Sasikala family members in various parts of the country were carried out at the behest of Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi Palaniswamy and his AIADMK group and by the Centre with a view to drive them out from the political arena.
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Thursday, November 9, 2017,
Chennai
The IT department on October 9 morning raided the office of Jaya TV channel at Eekkaatuthangal in Chennai, and the premises of several relatives of V K Sasikala including Dinakaran, Dhinakaran, Vivek Jayaraman (Sasikala’s nephew) who runs the channel and Ilavarasi’s daughter in Tamil Nadu.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017,
Chennai
AIADMK (Puratchithalaivi Amma) leader O Panneerselvam has described the decision of the ruling AIADMK (Amma) group to remove the Sasikala family from the party as a “first victory” for his Dharmayudham. The two AIADMK groups would hold talks regarding unity, he added.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017,
Chennai
Ousted deputy general secretary T T V Dhinakaran has decided to take the fight to the ruling AIADMK(Amma) and has convened a
meeting of party MLAs and district secretaries at party headquarters on April 19 afternoon.
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Monday, April 17, 2017,
New Delhi
Sukesh Chandrasekhar, involved in the Rs 50-crore bribery deal with TTV Dhinakaran to help the latter get the AIADMK Two Leaves symbol, is a serial conman who is wanted by the police in several States. There are nearly 50 cases pending against him in various States.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017,
Chennai
V K Sasikala, AIADMK general secretary, convicted along with Jayalalithaa, V N Sudhagaran and Ilavarasi, commenced her journey from Chennai to surrender before the Bengaluru trial court as directed by the Supreme Court. Before leaving Chennai, she went to the Jayalalithaa memorial and paid respects to the departed leader.
