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Former interim wide caput of the AIADMK and erstwhile Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s aide, V.K. Sasikala, has begun consultations with her supporters to finalise her strategy for the 2026 Assembly election.
At present, Ms. Sasikala has nary spot successful the AIADMK, adjacent though she claims she remains the wide caput of the party. Her interactions with her supporters volition spell connected till Friday (February 13, 2026). A adjacent follower of her campy says, “Ms. Sasikala whitethorn instrumentality a telephone shortly.” This whitethorn instrumentality spot earlier the commencement day of Jayalalithaa connected February 24, helium adds.
Explaining the intent of the interactions, her supporter, who had served arsenic a legislator of the AIADMK successful the past, says the thought is to impressment upon Ms. Sasikala that her radical should not support itself retired of the Assembly election, dissimilar successful 2021, erstwhile she chose to measurement speech from contesting elections. Besides, the affairs of the genitor enactment “are not being run” on the lines of the organisation’s laminitis M.G. Ramachandran and his successor Jayalalithaa’s ideals. “This is wherefore we privation to participate the electoral fray and people our presence,” the subordinate of the Sasikala campy observes.
Disqualification period
As for Ms. Sasikala herself, the play of disqualification continues, and therefore, she volition not beryllium capable to contention the polls this year. The disqualification play volition travel to an extremity lone aboriginal adjacent year.
When her nephew T.T.V. Dhinakaran launched the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) successful 2018, Ms. Sasikala was named the wide caput of the caller party. At the time, she was serving her condemnation successful a jailhouse successful Bengaluru. A twelvemonth later, Mr. Dhinakaran became the wide caput and stated publically that his aunt would proceed with litigation for gaining power of the AIADMK. Even arsenic helium has joined hands with the Dravidian major, AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami has refused to accommodate some Ms. Sasikala and former coordinator of the enactment and ex-Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam successful the alliance.
To a question connected whether the group’s beingness successful the electoral country volition person an interaction connected the prospects of the AIADMK and its allies successful the poll, helium recalls that successful his location territory of Tiruvallur, the AIADMK and its partners had mislaid successful each the 10 constituencies by important margins. This showed however the enactment had go “weak,” and it is to “correct this situation” that the radical is contemplating taking portion successful the poll.
To different question arsenic to whether the radical would align itself with Mr. Panneerselvam, who met Ms. Sasikala astatine Pasumpon past twelvemonth during the commencement day of Forward Bloc person U. Muthuramalinga Thevar, and a faction owing allegiance to the Pattali Makkal Katchi’s laminitis S. Ramadoss, helium says that each options volition beryllium considered earlier she finalises her stand.
