TN: Sasikala factor threatens AIADMK’s equation

On February 14, 2017, when the Supreme Court convicted her in the disproportionate assets case, V K Sasikala’s parting shot, before she bid farewell to her party, was: “No force can separate me from the AIADMK, wherever I may be I will always be thinking about the party.” More than three years later, the words have come back to haunt the party and its new, but divided leadership.