In an unanticipated development, a slew of ADMK leaders including senior ministers of Tamil Nadu had on Thursday filed a police complaint in the office of the Director-General of Police against VK Sasikala by alleging that she had illegitimately used the ADMK flag as she was not a member of the party and she wasn't permitted to use the party's flag and her breach warrants the legal action against her. 

The development, that shocked Sasikala and her faction, has come at a high time when Sasikala is four days ahead of arriving in Chennai. Sasikala, who was the expelled General Secretary of ADMK, had completed her four-year prison sentence and got released on January 27. She was serving imprisonment in the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru for four years after getting convicted in the Disproportionate Assets Case in which late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was the first accused.

Days ahead of her release, Sasikala was hospitalized in Bengaluru after testing positive for the COVID-19 viral infection and she was discharged on January 31st. Following her discharge, she had used a car that was previously used by Jayalalithaa. Sasikala boarded the car with the ADMK flag, which the political observers said, had sent a strong message to the ADMK leaders that she is ready for the political resurgence and battle of taking over the ADMK's reign. 

She used the car to travel to a resort in Bengaluru and it has been expected that she will be using the same car when she will be arriving in Chennai on February 8, 2021. With the allegations that Sasikala had used the ADMK flag illegally, several ADMK leaders had on Thursday filed a complaint with the Director-General of Police against Sasikala, in what has become a fresh clash between both the camps in claiming the right and control of the ADMK party. 

After strongly criticizing Sasikala for using the flag of the party despite not being a member, the party has now initiated legal action against her before she begins her legal battle for taking over the party. According to reports, Tamil Nadu Ministers Jayakumar, Thangamani, Velumani, and CV Shanmugam, ADMK Presidium Chairman Madhusudhanan, senior ADMK leaders KP Munusamy, Natham Viswanathan, and some of the legislators in Chennai had arrived in the DGP's office in the evening hours of Thursday. 

Unfolding a high-level drama, ADMK leader KP Munusamy had addressed the reporters during which he said that Sasikala won't have any moral rights to use ADMK's flag. The leaders pressed that Sasikala was removed from the party and it is now headed by Edappadi Palaniswami and Panneerselvam with having Jayalalithaa as the permanent General Secretary. The leaders had reiterated that the party won't be aligning with Sasikala and her arrival won't cause any adverse impact to the party. 

According to our sources, the ADMK leaders had moved a police complaint against Sasikala's action of using the ADMK flag without having any rights. In the complaint, the leaders had urged the police to take action that Sasikala won't be using the ADMK flag in the future and they also had demanded the police to ensure that Sasikala won't be using the ADMK flag after she arrives in Tamil Nadu and they had further said that only ADMK members have to use the ADMK flag. 

The political observers say that the unprecedented fashion of filing a police complaint against VK Sasikala ahead of her arrival had shown that the ADMK leaders are strengthening the fortress of the party that it won't be shaken by the arrival of the expelled leader and to ensure that the party remains under the control of the two current leaders. The police complaint against Sasikala is one of the drives of ADMK to contain her rise as the party has already been sacking the members who have shown their support to Sasikala and welcoming her to the state. 

The ADMK leadership had fired nearly five members so far for showing support to Sasikala and amid the expectations that Sasikala's arrival would trouble the ADMK leaders ahead of the election, the party's leadership has been preparing to address and counter Sasikala's actions towards political resurgence and filing a police complaint is one among the countermeasures against Sasikala to display that the entire party is staying under the control of the current leadership, which hopes to retain the power in the upcoming polls and form the ADMK government for the third consecutive time. 

On Thursday, Sasikala's nephew TTV Dhinakaran had said that Sasikala will be starting from Bengaluru on February 8 at 9 am and she will reach Chennai by road. Dhinakaran had called the supporters and members of the AMMK to provide a grand welcome to Sasikala and she would be staying in a residence in T Nagar, Chennai. According to reports, ADMK's drive of filing a police complaint against Sasikala has come after Dhinakaran claimed that Sasikala is the General Secretary of the ADMK and she would play important role in forming the next government.