As Tamil Nadu is three days away from witnessing the arrival of expelled ADMK leader VK Sasikala, the ruling ADMK is staying more vigil like never before to ensure that her arrival won't cause any drift within the party. The current leaders are sacking the members from the party who are found to be supporting Sasikala. However, it has been largely speculated that her arrival would stir a political storm and change the game as she has signaled that she would be involving in the political resurgence. 

VK Sasikala, who was the closest aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, had completed her prison sentence on January 27 and after four years of imprisonment and ten days of hospitalization, Sasikala would be arriving in Chennai on February 7 and she would be welcomed by her supporters. According to reports,  Sasikala would start from Bengaluru at 9 am on February 7 and she would reach the residence in T Nagar, Chennai, which is going to be her new address in the city.

As she would be reaching Chennai by road, thousands of her supporters are preparing to give her a royal welcome as her arrival would hold greater significance with multiple speculations and she would be arriving in Chennai when the state is just three months away from the upcoming legislative polls. While her supporters and her party AMMK  are waiting for her arrival, the ADMK party is heavily concerned about how her release would impact the party when it has been hoping to form the government for the third consecutive time. 

Speaking to the reporters on Wednesday, Sasikala's nephew TTV Dhinakaran, who now heads the AMMK party, said that the people of Tamil Nadu and Jayalalithaa's true cadres would usher in Amma's (Jayalalithaa) government again in the state and Sasikala will play an important role in elections and in forming the next government. In what has become a major revelation, Dhinakaran's announcement had shocked the ADMK leaders amid building the political system under them that would contain the rise of Sasikala. 

Dhinakaran stated that Sasikala is the general secretary of ADMK and she can't be removed from the post. By citing that the legal efforts are on to capture and bring ADMK under her full control as the general secretary, Dhinakaran reiterated that Sasikala will play a big role to form the next ADMK government. Commenting about ADMK's actions of expelling the members for showing support for Sasikala, Dhinakaran said that the chemical changes are begun in the state ahead of Sasikala's arrival. 

Dhinakaran's assertion that Sasikala would form the next government had shocked the ADMK leaders who are incessantly carrying out the drive of removing the party members for supporting Sasikala. ADMK rulers Edappadi Palaniswami and Panneerselvam are staying extremely vigil and are not sparing any of the party members who show their support to Sasikala as they are hoping to build a fortress around ADMK controlled by them to contain Sasikala's political comeback into the party. 

According to reports, ADMK leaders had fired nearly five members from the party after pasting the posters welcoming Sasikala to the party. Amid their drive of addressing the fresh tussles in the party and their assertion that Sasikala was removed from the party, Sasikala gave a huge shock for the ADMK leaders by leaving in a land cruiser car with the ADMK flag from the hospital to the resort in Bengaluru. This car was previously used by Jayalalithaa when she was released from the Bengaluru prison. 

By boarding Jayalalithaa's car with the ADMK flag, the political observers say that Sasikala had sent a strong message to the ADMK  that she is ready for the political resurgence and for the battle to take over the party from the current rulers. Despite the strong message, the ADMK maintained that Sasikala won't be inducted into the party and claimed that her release and arrival would create no adverse impact on the party. Senior ADMK leader Munusamy said that Jayalalithaa was the permanent General Secretary of the party and Dhinakaran's claim as Sasikala is the General Secretary is not acceptable. 

The political observers close to the developments said that her arrival would change the political game ahead of the assembly polls. It has been expected that the state would witness the grids moving across from February 7 following her arrival. The reports say that the poster politics of welcoming Sasikala from some of the leaders had reflected that their followers could align with Sasikala and it's also expected that the dissented ADMK members and members who have awaited her release would join Sasikala's camp and she would either initiate the legal battle to take over the ADMK or would head the AMMK party for the elections by fishing more members of the ADMK party. 

As Sasikala's release would trouble the current rulers in most of the ways, what they can be sure of is that Sasikala won't be going to Jayalalithaa's memorial on the day of her arrival as the ADMK government has closed the newly inaugurated memorial of Jayalalithaa for maintenance, which the opposition claimed that the government has closed with the fear that Sasikala would gain more importance and attention ahead of the election if she goes to the memorial on the day of her arrival in Chennai.