Bharatiya Janata Party functionary Subramanian Swamy has been one of the staunch supporters of V K Sasikala’s claim to form a government in Tamil Nadu. Ironically, the bullet that killed Sasikala’s hopes of becoming the chief minister came from a shot fired by Swamy two decades ago. Legal proceedings in the disproportionate assets case against late chief minister J Jayalalithaa started after Swamy filed a complaint naming only Jayalalithaa. But a raid of Poes Garden and evidence gathered there and other locations in 1996-97 brought Sasikala, her nephew V N Sudhakaran and her sister-in-law J Elavarasi as accused.
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