Sasikala focuses on Jaya TV network and JAZZ Cinemas for a comeback

 

With no media support, Sasikala has decided to get Jaya TV network and newspaper Namatthu MGR in top form and give it a good reach. She has asked Vivek , her nephew who looks after the media netwoork to infuse more manpower and bring in media men who are anti DMK on board. All this is made possible as fresh funds have come in and this has caught rivals DMK and BJP on the wrong foot. With most of her properties sized in one case or other, she was to be cash starved. She has got a person to fund her and this mystery man is now most wanted.

All sorts of speculation are on about the fresh lease of life and the financier,  The message is that Jaya TV would attack DMK ministry and  BJP.  Many feel Mayawati  through the  Yadava lobby could be behind it , as they were said to be having close ties with Sasikala. Some say it could be Mamata Banerjee whos is looking for a  ally in all States.

Sasikala has asked her nephew Vivek to spruce up Jaya TV and sister channels as well the print newspaper Nammatthu MGR and get it ready for doing propaganda work in the upcoming civic polls. She was hoping that Rajinikanth would get her a favourable view from the BJP top brass in Delhi but the welcome that she got was cold. She met Rajinikanth at his house and sources say that the Superstar came down from the top floor and took the bouquet and thanked Sasikala for coming and inquiring about his health. He then left abruptly and it was wife Latha who saw her to the door.

Latha is said to have told Sasikala to not lose heart and continue with her political work. Refusal of Rajinikanth to get into any conversation has made Sasikala get the message that BJP has given up on her. Sasikala feels that legally she will win the case to have her back as AIADMK general secretary. The court turned down a plea to stop Sasikala from using AIADMK party flag on her car. Yet another view is that BJP and DMK both will gain if Sasikala's political career is kept going. For BJP, EPS- OPS groups are scared that the saffron party may swing towards Chinna Amma and thereby tilt balance in power equations. This keeps them in control. For DMK, Sasikala will split the anti DMK votes that would have gone to AIADMK and instead end up in Dhinakaran;s AMMK box which cannot  cause damage.

Vivek has been asked to put Jaya TV and Namatthu MGR on high priority and go all out against the DMK ministry. Sources say that some quarters have agreed to invest in Jaya network. JAZZ Media which owns JAZZ Cinemas multiplex in Velachery had kept off from film distribution and now with fresh capital, Sasikala hopes to comeback in this field, Sources say that an OTT platform too will be coming from the Mannargudi owned Jazz. Jayalaithaa too had a affection to Vivek as his father Jayaraman ( brother of Sasikala) died due to electrocution when he was managing her Hyderabad grape orchard. Wen Sasikala was in jail, she cleared the financial deals of Jaya TV and made it safe and entirely in her name and Mannargudi family. The delinking with AIADMK was complete .If it was done, pary could have taken control of the TV network.