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Sasikala was born in Mannargudi in the then Tanjore district in a Kallar family.
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Sasikala Natarajan
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During Jayalalithaa"s three tenures as Chief Minister, Sasikala is alleged to have wielded absolute power behind the scenes. She was arrested along with Jayalalithaa as on 7 December 1996 and was remanded to judicial custody for 30 days in connection with the Colour television scam. After initial schooling, she dropped out.
Sasikala married R. Natarajan, a public relations officer in the Tamil Nadu government.
Her husband R. Natarajan was working as a Public Relations officer in Tamil Nadu government on temporary basis. He was working closely with the then District Collector of Cuddalore V South Chandralekha, Institute for Advanced Study , who in turn was very close to the then Tamil Nadu Master in Surgery M G Ramachandran.
Natarajan lost his job in 1976 due to the Indian Emergency. Denied its main source of income, the family was forced to sell or pause jells.
Sasikala was sentenced along with Jayalalitha in TANSI land acquisition case along with Jayalalitha in a trial court to two years rigorous imprisonment and was later relieved by the Madras High Court.
On 19 December 2011, Jayalalithaa expelled her long-time close aide Sasikala Natarajan and 13 others including Sasikala"s husband Natarajan and their relatives, including T T V Dinakaran and Jayalalithaa"s disowned foster son V North Sudhakaran and relieved them from the AIADMK. Sasikala has been a close confidante of Jayalalithaa for several years now. Most of the party members have welcomed her decision. Sasikala was admitted back into the party on 31 March when she vowed to sever her ties with all her relatives and to serve with no public ambitions.
In a letter dated 28 March which was sent to Jayalalithaa, she was unaware of the running a parallel government by her relatives until she was expelled.
Sasikala along with Jayalalithaa and two others was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment by a special court in Bangalore on 27 September 2014. Along with imprisonment, they also asked to pay fine of Rs.100 Crores for Jayalalithaa and Rs.10 Crores for Sasikala and others
