One of the most intriguing
relationships in the political history of India is between Late J. Jayalalitha
and Sasikala. People still wonder what was there in Sasikala which compelled
Jayalalitha to bestow complete trust on her. If you remove few months of hiatus
when Sasikala was removed from AIADMK, the relationship between them had always
been strong as well as mysterious.
Two reasons have
always been given by people in the know behind this intriguing chemistry
between them. The first one is the financial angle. People say that Jayalalitha
had been trapped in a sort of financial web by none other than Natarajan and it
had become tough for her to get out of this. The DA case kept on hovering over
Amma’s head which sometimes threatened to kill her political future.
The other reason
is quite personal – which had mainly provided by DMK leaders. That is the
sexual angle – J. Jayalalitha and Shasikala were lesbians. We will try to
explore this angle here.
Were Shasikala and Jayalalitha Lesbian?
When Jayalalitha
had removed Sasikala from AIADMK and asked all of her family members to get out
of her house at Poes Garden, majority of her die hard supporters were happy.
Even people had lit fireworks in many places in Tamil Nadu to celebrate this
step of Jayalalitha in 2011. However, few months later, Jayalalitha forgave
Shasikala and she returned to the house with all of her family members.
And, people
again started to blame that Jayalalitha couldn’t live without her sex partner
Shasikala and hence this forgiveness was just an orchestrated drama.
The root of this
allegation goes back in the late 1990s when a letter allegedly written by
Jayalalitha to her personal physician came in the public forum. In this letter,
Jayalalitha had disclosed about her sexual relationship with Shasikala. DMK
linked people started to raise their voices based on this letter and asked for
clarification from Jayalalitha.
That was a sort
of heinous campaign meant to malign the character of a woman who was fighting
all odds to shine in a predominantly patriarchal society.
On their parts,
both Jayalalitha and her personal doctor had denied the existence of any such
letter.
In a famous
interview with Simi Grewal, Jayalalitha had said that she never thought any
need to vociferously reply to these types of stupid and scandalous allegations.
It should also
be noted that once Karunanidh had said that – A pious, Pure and chaste lady is
talking about purity of Late Maran. Actually, few days back, Jayalalitha had
said that Maran wasn’t as such a pious man that his statue can be erected in
any corner of Tamil Nadu. Karunandhi had replied to this statement of Amma and
clearly his sarcastic words like pious, pure and chaste were meant to malign
the character of Jayalalitha.
In any case,
there isn’t any proof in the public forum about the lesbian relationship
between Jayalalitha and Shasikala.
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