VK Sasikala Alleges Name "Removed" From Voters' List, Will Sue Officials

A senior poll officer put the onus on VK Sasikala for losing her chance to vote this time.

The name of VK Sasikala, the confidante of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, has been "removed" from the voters' list without her knowledge and it is an "injustice", she has said through her legal counsel. She was sad about it and legal action will be initiated against officials responsible, her lawyer said yesterday. Tamil Nadu goes to the polls today. A senior poll officer, speaking to NDTV, put the onus on the 66-year-old for losing her chance to vote this time. "There is no conspiracy in this. It was her responsibility to ensure that her name is added," the electoral officer said. Ms Sasikala's name had earlier figured in Chennai's Thousand Lights Assembly constituency, her counsel N Raja Senthoor Pandian said, according to a PTI report. She was previously a resident of Ms Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden residence, which was converted into a memorial by the AIADMK government. Sometime after her release from prison in January, Ms Sasikala had said she would stay off politics. She had served a four-year sentence in a disproportionate assets case, of which the late Chief Minister, too, was convicted.