TN: Cleansing party and administration

In a decision that was at once personal and political, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa expelled her close friend V.K. Sasikala along with 13 close relatives from the primary membership of the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. To cut all links with a friend and associate of nearly 30 years could not have been easy but this severance, it appears, has been in the making for quite a while. This is by no means the first time the problem of the Gang of Fourteen acting in a self-appointed extra-constitutional role and interfering in party affairs and in the administration has been faced but this time they evidently went too far.

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