The name of VK Sasikala, the confidante of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, has been “removed” from the voters’ list without her knowledge and it is an “injustice”, she has said through her legal counsel.
She was sad about it and legal action will be initiated against officials responsible, her lawyer said yesterday. Tamil Nadu goes to the polls today.
A senior poll officer, speaking to NDTV, put the onus on the 66-year-old for losing her chance to vote this time. “There is no conspiracy in this. It was her responsibility to ensure that her name is added,” the electoral officer said.
According to reports, Sasikala’s voter ID had Poes Garden in Chennai as her residence address.
However, after being arrested in the disproportionate assets case in 2017, the government had taken over the building, thereby deleting the voters in that address.
Though Sasikala had filed a plea with the SEC in this regard, she is yet to be enlisted in the voters list, reported Puthiya Thalaimurai.
Sasikala’s lawyer Raja Senthoor Panidan said that he had come to know about her name being deleted from the list on 16 March, reported Hindustan Times. He then met with Tamil Nadu Chief Election Officer Satyabrata Sahoo but was told that the time period for making changes in the electoral roll had expired on 9 March.