Vivekanandan Krishnaveni Sasikala (born 18 August 1954), also known by her married name Sasikala Natarajan, and often referred to by her initials VKS, is an Indian politician. She was a close associate of J. Jayalalithaa, the late chief minister of Tamil Nadu, who headed the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) from 1989 until her death in 2016. Her cadres revered her as their "Chinnamma" (Small Mother) and "Puratchi Thaai" (Revolutionary mother). After Jayalalithaa's death, the party's general council elected her as a temporary secretary general of AIADMK. Before being imprisoned in the Central Prison in Bangalore, Sasikala appointed Edappadi K. Palanisamy as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Palanisamy and other ministers removed her from the post and expelled her from the party in September 2017. Her dismissal was upheld by the Madras High Court in December 2023.
After her expulsion she went to court over her dismissal as AIADMK general secretary. Her nephew T. T. V. Dhinakaran launched Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazhagam in March 2018 as unregistered party, with Sasikala as its general secretary. Dhinakaran replaced her in April 2019, as registered party.
In February 2017, a two-bench Supreme Court jury pronounced Sasikala guilty and ordered her immediate arrest in a disproportionate-assets case, in which Jayalalithaa was also involved, effectively ending Sasikala's chief ministerial ambitions. She was released in January 2021.
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Date: 18 August 1957
By Religious News Service
Religious Service
Natl Cath Welfare Conf charges World Council of Chs does 'great damage' to Cath-Prot relations in discussing alleged oppression of other faiths by RC Ch and in planning to study problem; cites criticism of Council by J W Whyte and others
Date: 19 August 1957
Special to The New York Times
3 Detroit papers suspend; Detroit Publishers Assn charges strike is illegal; union charges lockout; News claims only 1 man was discharged; Teamsters local refuses to deliver papers; ITU pres Randolph queries move, wire to Teamsters exec Hoffa; says strike is inspired by ex-ITU members, s, NYC; Massachusetts Comr Johnson urges ITU repudiate mailers rejection of Boston papers offer; publisher Choate comments on offer
Date: 18 August 1957
Special to The New York Times
Internatl Mailers Union (Ind) strikes Detroit News for discharging 87 mailers who refused overtime work; 6 were ITU mailers; ITU mailers hon pact; scuffle with pickets; News suspends; Detroit Free Press and Times carry News masthead at News request; ITU mailers reject 'final' offer of Boston papers
Date: 18 August 1957
Sen Mansfield scores ban
Date: 18 August 1957
By A.L. CHANIN
A. CHANIN
Article an cubism started by Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; painting illus
Date: 18 August 1957
Gov Harriman and Comr Felix score NYC papers coverage of NYC labor conditions
Date: 19 August 1957
By JANE NICKERSON
Jane NICKERSON