CHENNAI: Responding to the “betrayal” barb of AIADMK general secretary V.K. Sasikala, Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam on Thursday hit back at her seeking to know whether “accommodating” her relatives thrown out by late J. Jayalalithaa back into the Poes Garden residence was not an “act of betrayal”.
Hardening his stance against Ms Sasikala, Mr Panneerselvam harped on the apology letter she had given to late Jayalalithaa to come back to her residence after she was thrown out of the house in 2011 in which she had clarified that she did not want to involve herself in public life, nor was she interested in power or positions.
“This was the letter Sasikala gave to late Amma in 2012 in which she says she wants to come back only to be of help to her. She also said she was not interested in power or positions. But now she wants to take over the party and government. And now she also says she had not even thought of betraying Amma. Then, why did she give the letter,” he asked.
“Sasikala is saying that I have betrayed. Who has betrayed? Her letter to Amma in 2012 will say who has betrayed (Amma and the party),” he said, adding that whether her action of bringing back her relatives expelled from Poes Garden by the late Chief Minister in 2011 to Poes Garden was not an act of betrayal. He was responding to Ms Sasikala’s statement on Wednesday that he had betrayed the AIADMK. “People will teach a lesson to Sasikala,” he said,
