PTI, MANNARGUDI: Days after Income Tax sleuths raided premises linked to the family of jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala, her brother V Divakaran has said that late chief minister J Jayalalithaa did not ensure any “protection” to his sister.
Since 1996, Sasikala has always been under a cloud of “inquiry”, Divakaran said in an apparent reference to a spate of corruption cases filed against Jayalalithaa and his sister, who was a close aide of the late leader, after the AIADMK lost the assembly elections that year. “Amma (Jayalalithaa) utilised her fully, but went (died) without giving her any protection,” he said without elaborating.
“Just imagine, if someone from your family happened to be with a powerful leader and did all the things said by the leader, and was still pushed to an unsafe situation later, then that is the best example for all women. It is a lesson for all,” he told reporters here yesterday while responding to queries on the I-T raids. Divakaran’s premises were also raided by I-T officials last week as part of multi-city searches of those associated with Sasikala.
