The ADMK leaders from Chennai to Kanyakumari have begun celebrating the birth anniversary of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and party's General Secretary Jayalalithaa as Wednesday - February 24th marked her 73rd birthday. The party leaders, displaying their allegiance to the late leader, have been organizing events to celebrate her birthday in their bid to take her name, even more, closer to the people ahead of the assembly polls. 

The ADMK leaders are celebrating Jayalalithaa's birthday in the backdrop of a question and speculation that arose from across the state that whether Jayalalithaa's closest confidante VK Sasikala could come to the late leader's memorial to pay her respect after four years. The memorial that was recently inaugurated is surfaced with strong speculations about whether Sasikala and her supporters would march towards Jayalalithaa's resting place. 

According to reports, the ADMK leaders including Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister Panneerselvam are staying vigil and monitoring whether Sasikala would stir the political game by visiting Jayalalithaa's memorial. On Wednesday, the ADMK leaders had assembled at the party's headquarters in Chennai and paid their respects to Jayalalithaa and it has been reported that the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister will inaugurate a museum of Jayalalithaa that was built close to her memorial.

The museum features Jayalalithaa's life story from Cinema to emerging as an iron lady of Tamil Nadu. The museum will be unveiled in the morning hours of Wednesday amid hundreds of ADMK members and supporters. For the inauguration, the leaders will open the gates of the memorial that were closed on January 27, hours after the inauguration. Jayalalithaa's current birth anniversary becomes crucial and draws major attention over a slew of anticipations on Sasikala's entry into active politics. 

VK Sasikala had served a four-years of imprisonment at Parappane Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru after being convicted in the Disproportionate Assets case in which Jayalalithaa was the first accused. She went to prison in February 2017 and got released on January 27, 2021, after four years. On the same day of her release, the ADMK leaders had inaugurated Jayalalithaa's memorial in Chennai, which was built at Marina Beach. 

By opening the memorial on the same day of Sasikala's release, the ADMK leaders thought of pouring minimal light on Sasikala's release. As Sasikala went to the prison by taking vows on Jayalithaa's resting place, the ADMK leaders had disturbing speculations that she would come to the memorial after getting released to make another round of pledge to mark her political resurgence. With the view of that, the government had closed the gates of the memorial by citing maintenance. 

Sasikala arrived in Chennai on February 9, 2021, amid a rousing welcome and she has been currently staying at a residence in T Nagar, Chennai.  The sources said that Sasikala hasn't exited her residence for the past two weeks and she would come to the memorial on the birth anniversary of Jayalalithaa. She would visit the memorial along with her supporters and would take a pledge towards taking back the control of the ADMK and defeating DMK in the upcoming assembly polls.

As the ADMK leaders are celebrating Jayalalithaa's birth anniversary on Wednesday, speculations are on the rise that whether Sasikala would break the barriers and enter Jayalalithaa's memorial. The ADMK leaders will be re-opening the gates of the memorial to unveil Jayalalithaa's museum on Wednesday and the reports say that they would be cautious that the episode of unveiling the museum shouldn't witness a high political drama of Sasikala's entry into the memorial. 

It must be noted that on her way to Chennai from Bengaluru, Sasikala affirmed that she will definitely plunge into active politics and said that she will meet her supporters soon. As Sasikala has been confined in her residence for two weeks, the political observers say that she has been waiting for Jayalalithaa's birth anniversary and she would exit her residence and arrive at the memorial to pay her respect. However, the ADMK leaders have planned to give no space for her arrival as they have decided to close the memorial again and deploy security forces around the memorial as soon as they inaugurate the museum.