Jayalalitha's video triggers controversy just before RK Nagar by-poll

Chennai: Just a day before by-polls in the RK-Nagar constituency in the city, a video of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has been surfaced on social media.

This is the first ever video of Jayalalitha, who died in December 2016, where the former TN CM was seen sitting up on a hospital bed and sipping a drink .

The video has been revealed just a day before the by-polls in the constituency which was held by Jayalalitha herself.

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According to the preliminary reports the video has been circulated by a lawmaker supporting TTV Dhinakaran, the nephew of Jayalalithaa's long-time aide VK Sasikala.

It is to be mentioned that Dhinakaran was sacked from AIADMK earlier in 2017 and is noe contesting from the same constituency against the official candidate of the party.

It could be recalled that Jayalalithaa was hospitalised for three months in 2016 last until took her last breath on December 5.