AIADMK’s Dindigul C Srinivasan has accused J Jayalalithaa’s aide VK Sasikala and her nephew TTV Dhinakaran of “feeding slow poison” to the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, the Hindustan Times reported.
Srinivasan reportedly made the accusations during a party function on Saturday, 10 November. The video of him accusing Sasikala was circulated a day after.
Srinivasan alleged that Sasikala overlooked Jayalalithaa’s diabetes and fed her a wrong diet.
He also accused Dhinakaran, leader of the AIADMK rebel faction, of threatening party workers by misusing Jayalalithaa’s bond with Sasikala. “When Jayalalithaa was alive, Sasikala assisted the former in her daily routine. Misusing that proximity, Dhinakaran used to threaten AIADMK workers. However, such strategies will not work now,” he is purportedly heard saying in the video.
On Saturday, Deputy Assembly Speaker Pollachi V Jayaraman also hinted at a conspiracy in Jayalalithaa’s death while talking to party workers in Thoothukudi. He said that “someone” had refused to let Jayalalithaa be taken abroad for treatment.
Responding to the accusations, Raja Sendoor Pandian, a counsel for Sasikala, called these statements inappropriate. He told Hindustan Times:
The state government had set up a judicial commission, headed by retired Madras High Court judge Justice A Arumugasamy, to investigate into Jayalalithaa’s death. The AIADMK supremo died at the Apollo Hospital in Chennai on 5 December 2016.
(With inputs from Hindustan Times.)
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