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nOne of the most intriguingnrelationships in the political history of India is between Late J. Jayalalithanand Sasikala. People still wonder what was there in Sasikala which compellednJayalalitha to bestow complete trust on her. If you remove few months of hiatusnwhen Sasikala was removed from AIADMK, the relationship between them had alwaysnbeen strong as well as mysterious.
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nTwo reasons havenalways been given by people in the know behind this intriguing chemistrynbetween them. The first one is the financial angle. People say that Jayalalithanhad been trapped in a sort of financial web by none other than Natarajan and itnhad become tough for her to get out of this. The DA case kept on hovering overnAmma’s head which sometimes threatened to kill her political future.
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nThe other reasonnis quite personal – which had mainly provided by DMK leaders. That is thensexual angle – J. Jayalalitha and Shasikala were lesbians. We will try tonexplore this angle here.
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nWere Shasikala and Jayalalitha Lesbian?
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nWhen Jayalalithanhad removed Sasikala from AIADMK and asked all of her family members to get outnof her house at Poes Garden, majority of her die hard supporters were happy.nEven people had lit fireworks in many places in Tamil Nadu to celebrate thisnstep of Jayalalitha in 2011. However, few months later, Jayalalitha forgavenShasikala and she returned to the house with all of her family members.
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nAnd, peoplenagain started to blame that Jayalalitha couldn’t live without her sex partnernShasikala and hence this forgiveness was just an orchestrated drama.
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nThe root of thisnallegation goes back in the late 1990s when a letter allegedly written bynJayalalitha to her personal physician came in the public forum. In this letter,nJayalalitha had disclosed about her sexual relationship with Shasikala. DMKnlinked people started to raise their voices based on this letter and asked fornclarification from Jayalalitha.
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nThat was a sortnof heinous campaign meant to malign the character of a woman who was fightingnall odds to shine in a predominantly patriarchal society.
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nOn their parts,nboth Jayalalitha and her personal doctor had denied the existence of any suchnletter.
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nIn a famousninterview with Simi Grewal, Jayalalitha had said that she never thought anynneed to vociferously reply to these types of stupid and scandalous allegations.
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nIt should alsonbe noted that once Karunanidh had said that – A pious, Pure and chaste lady isntalking about purity of Late Maran. Actually, few days back, Jayalalitha hadnsaid that Maran wasn’t as such a pious man that his statue can be erected innany corner of Tamil Nadu. Karunandhi had replied to this statement of Amma andnclearly his sarcastic words like pious, pure and chaste were meant to malignnthe character of Jayalalitha.
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nIn any case,nthere isn’t any proof in the public forum about the lesbian relationshipnbetween Jayalalitha and Shasikala.
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