Chennai, Sept. 16 -- Countering AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami's (EPS) assertion that it was the BJP which had saved the party government in the aftermath of Jayalalithaa's demise, TTV Dhinakaran, who quit the NDA in Tamil Nadu, today put the record straight saying that it was Jayalalithaa's confidant VK Sasikala and not the saffron party who protected it from falling apart.
A day after EPS asked the party rank and file to be thankful to the BJP as otherwise it would be rank ingratitude, Dhinakaran, nephew of Sasikala, and heading the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK), told the media in Thanjavur that all the 122 MLAs voted for the government heeding her advice and the national party had no role in that.
"It was the AI...