India, March 6 -- Chennai: On 8 February, V.K. Sasikala, former general secretary of AIADMK and aide to the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J. Jayalalithaa, undertook a 23-hour journey from Bengaluru to Chennai. Thousands of party workers from AIADMK and AMMK thronged the road to greet the long term confidante and friend of Amma during the journey, reinforcing the view that her arrival would definitely shake up Tamil Nadu's political situation and the impending elections. While people and politicians were waiting to watch what her next move would be, on 3 March, Sasikala announced that she was "staying away" from politics and that the supporters of Amma should unite to defeat the common enemy, the DMK in the Assembly elections.

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