Interesting facts about Jayalalitha, former Tamil Nadu CM

Sasikala helped all her family members and her family became very rich by 1996. The stories of moneymaking through wrongful means by Sasikala's family members spread across the state, rather the entire country and it was one of the main reasons for the defeat of Jayalalithaa's party AIADMK in the 1996 elections.

Jayalalithaa's time changed for good once again in 1998 when AIADMK came to power at the Centre as part of Vajpayee led NDA.

NDA's troubleshooters like Pramod Mahajan and Brajesh Mishra started cultivating Sasikala and her ‘Mannargudi Mafia' but it is said that even someone like Pramod Mahajan found it difficult to deal with Sasikala's family which had enormous lust for money.

Mahajan started ignoring Sasikala and her family but it proved disastrous as Sasikala joined hands with Congress whose leader Sonia was sending her feelers.