BJP’s Tamil Nadu Unit president Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan has said that irrespective of whatever ‘vradam’ that Sasikala may undertake, she would never be able to absolve herself of the many sins she had committed in the past.

Set-up by the Govt. of Tamil Nadu, the Justice Arumuga Swamy Commission of Inquiry has been probing the mysterious circumstances which preceded the 11-week period prior to the untimely demise of former chief-minister J. Jayalalithaa on 05th December, 2016.  The COI has interrogated more than 20 individuals and sent summons to Bangalore’s Parappana Agrahara Prison inmate Sasikala, former aide of the former chief-minister, to appear for deposing before it.

Sasikala replied to the summons by stating she would depose only if the names of those who complained against her were revealed.  Her counsel told the COI that she had been on ‘silent vradam’ (a kind of penance) for the past few weeks and won’t be able to ‘speak’.

Surprisingly enough, she cited the same reason through her counsel to the summons by income-tax officials who conducted search operations at Jayalalithaa’s Poes Garden residence and found in Sasikala’s room a confidential letter addressed to the former chief-minister in the Gutka ban case. “She would speak up only after 10th February,” is the message conveyed by her counsel.

Tamilisai was in her elements while commenting about it and said no amount of penance would help Sasikala in ridding herself of the innumerable sins that she had committed in the past.