TN ministers meet DGP against Sasikala

In an unusual move, a group of Tamil Nadu senior ministers on Thursday met Director General of Police JK Tripathy and submitted a complaint urging him to prevent VK Sasikala, former aide of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa, from using the ruling AIADMK flag. Sasikala, a former interim general secretar y of the AIADMK, was sidelined from the party af ter a few months af ter she was jailed in a corruption case in which Jayalalithaa was the prime accused. Upon her recent release from a Bengaluru prison, she was seen travelling in a SUV bearing the AIADMK flag.

Her nephew and Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam founder TTV Dhinakaran had justified saying she had moved court challenging her ‘ouster ’ from the AIADMK. Since the case was subjudice, she had ever y right to use the flag. Objecting to this, an AIADMK delegation comprising three senior minister D Jayakumar (Fisheries), P Thangamani (Electricity) and C Ve Shanmugam (Law) along with party presidium chairman E Madhusudhanan and party deputy coordinator K P Munusamy submitted a complaint to the DGP.