Veda Nilayam belongs to me and my brother, says Deepa

The resolution passed by the ruling party to convert former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s house into a memorial has irked her niece Deepa Jayakumar. The MGR Amma Deepa Peravai general secretary has questioned the locus standi of the Chief Minister on that count. 

Deepa wanted to know how the Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy could take such a unilateral decision on the fate of Veda Nilayam. She further said that she and her brother Deepak, who were Jayalalithaa’s legal  heirs, had a rightful claim to the former CM’s properties. 

“I have the duty to safeguard Veda Nilayam. On what right the Sasikala group is trying to take over the Poes Garden residence? I will resort to legal action if such a move is executed,” she warned. Deepa further added that it was a drama enacted by the EPS group to fool the real AIADMK cadre.

 “The ruling dispensation kept quiet when the Opposition demanded the removal of my aunt’s memorial from the Marina calling her a convict. Both O Panneerselvam and EPS groups have separated me from my aunt, who was like a mother to me. Now, they talk about converting the Poes Garden house into a memorial only to cover up their faults,” she alleged.  Taking a dig at TNCC president Su Thirunavukkarasar, who was a close friend of Sasikala’s husband M Natarajan, she said he is hand in glove with the DMK to obliterate the AIADMK. “The real AIADMK cadre will never allow Veda Nilayam to be taken over by the Sasikala benami EPS government,” she thundered. 

Deepa further averred that following her aunt Jayalalithaa’s demise, she had been abated from the disproportionate assets case and hence there was no need to pay the Rs 100 crore fine. Moreover, the Poes Garden property does not figure in the DA case. “The EPS government is spreading a lie by saying that the TN government will convert the house into a memorial after retrieving it through an auction,” she noted.