# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/v-k-sasikala
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:51:37.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/v-k-sasikala"
name: "V. K. Sasikala"
slug: "v-k-sasikala"
description: "Sasikala Natarajan, born as Vivekanandan Krishnaveni Sasikala on 18 August 1954, is an Indian politician who was briefly the Chief Minister-elect of Tamil Nadu in February 2017. She was a close confidante 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. She is also the aunt of AMMK general secretary T. T. V. Dhinakaran. She is noted for her short-lived cult of personality in Tamil Nadu as a successor of Jayalalithaa before being convicted by the Supreme Court of India for money laundering. Her cadres revered her as their \"Chinnamma\" and \"Puratchi Thaai\""
tagline: "Indian Business Woman And Female politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/V._K._Sasikala.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-08-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           16.10289866666666
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "AmmavinVazhi"
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    handle:    "OfficeofVKS"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump