In a shocking revelation, a Tamil Nadu minister has confessed that he lied to the people about the health condition of former Tamil Nadu chief minister, Jayalalithaa, almost a year after she was admitted to the Apollo hospital. Tamil Nadu Forest Minister, C Sreenivasan, during a public address in Madurai on Friday night, apologised to the people for ‘lying about Amma’s health’.
“We all lied about Jayalalithaa’s health condition. None of us met Jayalalithaa in the Apollo Hospital but we lied that she was recovering and ate food and met people. I apologize for those lies,” C Sreenivasan said in the meeting.
The minister told the public that everyone in the government lied about Jayalalithaa meeting people in Apollo Hospital, where she was admitted on 22 September 2016. He revealed that even national political leaders like Venkaiah Naidu, Rahul Gandhi were not allowed inside Jayalalithaa’s room but were made to sit in Apollo Hospitals chief Pratap Reddy’s room.
“We all lied then so that the party’s secret does not get leaked,” Sreenivasan claimed. The minister added that not a single person except V K Sasikala met Jayalalithaa all through her course in the hospital starting 22 September and until her death on 5 December.
“Even Sasikala would go inside the room only for two minutes on the instructions of the doctors,” he said. The claims come at a time when Chief Minister Edappadi Palanisamy has ordered a judicial probe into the death of Jayalalithaa.
