Setting an unusual precedent in Tamil Nadu, the high-level leaders and senior ministers of the state ruling ADMK party have been unfolding political drama by approaching the police department and filing a complaint against VK Sasikala, pushing the state to witness the first-of-its-kind event where the state ministers marched towards the police department to file a complaint. 

The development that the Tamil Nadu ministers and ADMK leaders marching towards the police department has come two days ahead of the arrival of VK Sasikala, who was the closest aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. The political observers say that the second episode of police complaint that the ADMK unfolded on Saturday had shown how the party is concerned about the comeback of Sasikala, who played an important role in forming a new government after the demise of Jayalalithaa and she was later removed by the current leaders after she was imprisoned. 

On Saturday, Tamil Nadu ministers and senior ADMK leaders Jayakumar, Thangamani, CV Shanmugam had combinedly gone to the Office of Director-General of Police in Chennai and filed a police complaint against VK Sasikala for illegitimately using the ADMK flag even after getting expelled from the party. While addressing the reporters after moving the police complaint, Tamil Nadu Law Minister CV Shanmugam said, " We don't have any objections on Sasikala's arrival in Chennai after serving the imprisonment". 

The minister stated, "However, Sasikala and Dhinakaran are acting in a way of instigating violence in the state. Sasikala is violating the order of the Supreme Court and she shouldn't use the ADMK flag. ADMK doesn't have any connections to the conspiracies of Sasikala".  "The true ADMK is functioning under Edappadi Palaniswami and Panneerselvam. We have moved the complaint to the DGP to urge the police department to ensure that Sasikala and Dhinakaran are not using the ADMK flag", Shanmugam added. 

Saturday's complaint was the second one that was filed directly by the ministers, which was never witnessed in the state before and Saturday's complaint has come a day after Sasikala's nephew Dhinakaran had asserted that Sasikala will be contesting in the upcoming assembly polls. Though she is barred to contest elections for the next six years under the Prevention of Corruption Act, Dhinakaran maintained that she will be contesting in the assembly polls. 

VK Sasikala had served a four-year prison sentence in Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru after getting convicted in the Disproportionate Assets Case. She went to prison in February 2017 after naming Edappadi Palaniswami as the Chief Minister after Jayalalithaa. She was then removed from the post of ADMK's General Secretary after Edappadi Palaniswami merged with Panneerselvam, who was dissenting against Sasikala. After the merger, Palaniswami and Panneerselvam took over the control of the party and removed Sasikala and her supporters from the party. 

After serving the prison sentence, Sasikala got released from the prison on January 27, 2021. However, days ahead of her release, she was tested positive for the COVID-19 viral infection and she was hospitalized in Bengaluru for ten days. She got discharged from Victoria Hospital on January 31st, 2021, and she went to a resort in Bengaluru from the hospital in a car that was used by Jayalalithaa with the ADMK flag. 

While the political observers say that she had sent a strong message to the ADMK leaders that she still remains in the party and will plunge into active politics after arriving in Chennai, her travel with the ADMK flag had irked the current party leaders following which they have decided to file a police complaint against Sasikala after illegally using the flag even after getting removed from the party. While the state had witnessed the second police complaint against her on Saturday, on Thursday, the ADMK leaders had filed the first complaint against Sasikala. 

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 had reiterated that the party won't be aligning with Sasikala and her arrival won't cause any adverse impact to the party. The political observers say that 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. 

However, two complaints in two days have shown that the ADMK leaders are very much concerned about her arrival and they are taking measures to stop her political resurgence. By pressing that she can't use the ADMK flag anymore, the current party leaders are displaying that she won't be welcomed to share and claim the legacy of ADMK and she can't be let to take over the leadership of the party. However, amid the fortress around ADMK to stop her comeback, it has been expected that her arrival would cause a major political storm within the party ahead of the assembly polls. Sasikala would be starting from Bengaluru on February 8 at 9 am and she would be arriving in Chennai on Monday afternoon.