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And for a long while, the relationship between the two was that of a bored lady and her favourite supplier of video cassettes. Was close to MGR, the then chief minister, and at his behest, took Jayalalitha under her wing when the latter was made propaganda secretary of the AIADMK.Ĭhandralekha was also responsible for introducing Sasikala to Jayalalitha. Sasikala's husband, Natarajan, was during the late seventies one of the public relations officers of the M G Ramachandran government, and it was thus that he chanced to meet, and make friends with IAS officer V Chandralekha. And when time came to vote, they showed what they thought of the whole vulgar display by giving a resounding thumbs down to Jayalalitha and everyone associated with her.įor Sasikala, it has been a long journey from the small-time video shop she once ran to becoming the de facto ruler of 36, Poes Garden - home of Jayalalitha herself. The villagers came, they gawked, and went home happy. Sasikala obliged, accompanying Jayalalitha all over the state, dressed in incandescent finery. Person, and we want to know whether she wears all those jewelsĮvery day," the people in the villages and small towns told inquiring reporters. But when she, and all her party members, lost miserably at the hustings, analysts probed for the reasons why these crowds had not translated into votes. Jayalalitha's defeat itself owed much to the ill will Sasikala had created in the minds of the people of the state, especially after the garishly ostentatious wedding of her nephew, whom Jayalalitha first adopted as her son and then got married off to the grand-daughter of Tamil thespian Sivaji Ganesan.ĭuring the run-up to the election, Jayalalitha had drawn huge crowds. Till, that is, the Dravida Munnetra Kazagham under K Karunanidhi swept Jayalalitha's AIADMK aside in the assembly election earlier this year, and assumed power. and Sasikala basked in all the attention, queening it over Madras as one to the manner born. Madras residents have, for years now, found in her an inexhaustible subject for gossip and speculation - centering around her jewels, her bungalows, her dictatorial airs. Sasikala Natarajan - video parlour operator turned confidante turned 'sister in spirit' turned albatross around the political neck of former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha Jayaram - is one person who has, single-handedly, redefined the parameters of the phrase 'house hunting'. Rediff On The NeT: A tour of the many homes that Sasikala Natarajan built