India
oi-Briti Roy Barman
Chennai, Feb 08: V K Sasikala, close aide of former CM J Jayalalithaa, on Monday addressed her supporters for the first time after her release from prison and said she is going to engage in serious politics, cementing the ruling AIADMK’s fears.
“I am a slave to love,” she said on Monday evening. “I am a slave to the people and volunteers of Tamil Nadu. I will meet you all soon and will enter full-fledged politics.”
“I am bound by love, to the Tamil ethos and the principles I have embarked upon. But I can never be enslaved by oppression,” she told her loyalists. Earlier, she returned to Tamil Nadu to a grand reception, days after completing her jail term in Bengaluru in the Rs 66.6 crore disproportionate assets case, amid indications of a confrontation with the ruling party which she once controlled. Asked by reporters about the AIADMK ministers filing police…