Last May, not long before she disappeared from the public view, J Jayalalithaa fought her last election as sitting MLA from R K Nagar in north Chennai. She didn't campaign but swept in unopposed. R K Nagar is a proletarian, lower middle area but why is this nondescript neighbourhood so important?
Because it is the only vacant MLA seat in Tamil Nadu's 234-seat legislature. Can V K Sasikala, pretender to Amma's throne, fill that seat?
The plain answer is "No". The R K Nagar by-election is imminent but Ms Sasikala is so deeply detested in Chennai that she knows she will be
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