The presence of the AIADMK flag on the car used by V.K. Sasikala, the party’s former interim general secretary and aide of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, in Bengaluru on Sunday, has raised a question about her ties with the party.
Law Minister C.Ve. Shanmugam asserted that Sasikala does not have locus standi to use the flag as she is no longer a member of the party.
“We threw them [Sasikala and her nephew T.T.V. Dhinakaran] out of the party at the general council meeting held in September 2017. The two had approached the courts to establish their claim over the party but only suffered setbacks,” he said.
The “only relief” that the two got from the Madras High Court in November 2017 was to inspect the statement of accounts submitted by three banks in which the party held current accounts. “Actually, the case should have been transferred to a city civil court in the wake of the changed legal position on petitions whose valuation is less than ₹1 crore. As it has been…