Jayalalitha expels close aide Sasikala from AIADMK

Monday, December 19, 2011: In a surprise move, AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha today expelled her close aide V K Sasikala and her husband M Natarajan besides 10 others from the party’s primary membership.
The drastic action against Sasikala, who had enjoyed absolute confidence of Jayalalithaa was announced in a brief statement by the AIADMK chief, who also told her partymen not to have any truck with the expelled members.
Sasikala, also an AIADMK Executive Member, Natarajan and their relatives, including T T V Dinakaran and Jayalalithaa’s disowned foster son V N Sudhakaran “are being expelled from all posts, including the party’s primary membership,” she said.
Others shown the door are V Bhaskaran, S Venkatesh and Ravanan, all of whom were believed to have been calling the shots in the party after it won the April 2011 Assembly polls, besides M Ramachandran, Mohan, Kulothungan, Rajarajan and Divakar.