He said that though he had met Shylaja and Amrutha, he 'can't say for sure that it is true'. NK Mohanram, a former Doordarshan producer, who authored a book Amma Aada Ammu Jayalalithaa (How Ammu Jayalalithaa became Amma) on her early life in Mysore and Bengaluru told News 18 that most of Jayalalithaa's relatives refused to share information or talk about Jaya.

Later, she was given away to an art director named Damodar, but she had no evidence to prove her claim, which was met with total silence from Poes Garden.Īccording to official records, Jayalalithaa has only one sibling, a brother named Jayakumar. According to her, their father Jayaram died before Shylaja, the third child, was born. The report on The News Minute also mentioned that Shylaja had given an interview to Junior Vikatan in 2014, whereby she claimed she was the third child of Jayalalithaa's mother Sandhya.

Shylaja had given interviews to media channels in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, requesting Jayalalithaa acknowledge their relationship, but it never happened, News 18 reported.

She added that she had visited Jayalalithaa on several occasions and that the late chief minister treated her with maternal affection and had even purchased an AIADMK membership for her.Īmrutha said she tried to meet Jayalalithaa four times at Apollo Hospital during her last days, but was driven away by security guards on instructions of Sasikala, 'as was found later', The Telegraph reported.Īmrutha also wanted Jayalalithaa's body to be cremated as per Hindu Iyengar caste rituals.Īmrutha was often seen with Shylaja, who used to claim she was Jayalalithaa's sister. Īmrutha's petition also stated that when she was born on 14 August, 1980, at Jayalalithaa's Mylapore residence in Chennai, an 'understanding' was arrived at between Jayalalithaa and her family members that her birth would not be disclosed in order to 'uphold the dignity of the family as they belong to a very religious, orthodox and cultured Brahmin family'. In her petition, Amrutha mentioned that she was adopted by Shylaja and that she learnt the 'truth' about her birth only after Jayalalithaa's death on 5 December, 2016, Hindustan Timessaid.

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