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V. K. Sasikala

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Vivekanandan Krishnaveni Sasikala (born 18 August 1954), also known by her married name Sasikala Natarajan, and often referred to by her initials VKS, is an Indian politician. She was a close associate of J. Jayalalithaa, the late chief minister of Tamil Nadu, who headed the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) from 1989 until her death in 2016.Her cadres whose cadre revered her as their "Chinnamma" (Small Mother) and "Puratchi Thaai" (Revolutionary mother). After Jayalalithaa's death, the party's general council elected her as a temporary secretary general of AIADMK. Before being imprisoned in the Central Prison in Bangalore, Sasikala appointed Edappadi K. Palanisamy as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of V. K. Sasikala has received more than 2,213,625 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). V. K. Sasikala is the 17,295th most popular politician (down from 15,215th in 2019), the 920th most popular biography from India (down from 693rd in 2019) and the 252nd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, V. K. Sasikala ranks 17,295 out of 19,576. Before her are Zsolt Semjén, Sean Chen, Carme Chacón, Sergey Menyaylo, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, and Zsolt Baumgartner. After her are Ben Wallace, Hartwig Löger, Harlem Désir, Louis A. Johnson, Robert Toombs, and María Dolores de Cospedal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, V. K. Sasikala ranks 587. Before her are Freddie Prinze, Jutta Kirst, Noureddine Kourichi, Jerry Mateparae, Ken Wahl, and Rakhshān Banietemad. After her are Vakhtang Blagidze, Mike Hagerty, Costică Dafinoiu, Kimmy Robertson, Karl Schnabl, and Park Chang-sun.

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In India

Among people born in India, V. K. Sasikala ranks 920 out of 1,861. Before her are Nandini Satpathy (1931), Uddhav Thackeray (1960), Avinash Dixit (1944), Yellapragada Subbarow (1895), Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi (1920), and MS Dhoni (1981). After her are B. Saroja Devi (1938), Prem Nazir (1927), Karan Johar (1972), Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (1972), Bobby Deol (1969), and Jyoti Amge (1993).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, V. K. Sasikala ranks 252. Before her are Parmanand Jha (1944), Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944), Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (1734), Balram Jakhar (1923), Nandini Satpathy (1931), and Uddhav Thackeray (1960). After her are Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (1972), Asaf Ali (1888), Uma Bharti (1959), P. A. Sangma (1947), Sushilkumar Shinde (1941), and Sikandar Jah (1768).

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