Mysore :

Shailaja, who claims to be the sister of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, met her elder brother M. J. Vasudevan, who stays at Srirangarajapura in T. Narasipur taluk on Monday.

Shailaja who recently appeared in TV channels claiming to be the sister of Jayalalithaa, visited the residence of her step-brother Vasudevan at Srirangarajapura.

Shailaja, in a statement issued to a newspaper recently, had claimed that she was unaware about the whereabouts of her step-brother, who was the son of the first wife of her father R. Jayaram.

Vasudevan, upon reading the report, contacted the newspaper office and came to know of his step-sister, following which Shailaja met him at his residence on Monday evening.

Jayalalithaa is a native of Mysore

R. Jayaram, who was the son of N. Rangachar, a Palace doctor during the era of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar, had 2 wives named Jayamma and Sandhya. While Vasudevan was the son of Jayaram’s first wife Jayamma, Jayakumar, Jayalalithaa and Shailaja were born from his second wife Sandhya.

Jayaram, after separating from his first wife Jayamma, later lived with his second wife Sandhya at Lakshmipuram in city.

Meanwhile, Vasudevan said that he had contacted ‘Star of Mysore,’ when reports of Jayalalithaa’s birth place began to appear in newspapers and gave clarification in this regard.

Pointing out that Shailaja had prayed at Chamundi Hills and Srikanteshewara Temple in Nanjangud for the victory of her sister Jayalalithaa in the Lok Sabha Polls, Vasudevan said Shailaja visited Chamundi Hills and Nanjangud once again to fulfil her vows, following her sister’s success in the poll.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News  / July 09th, 2014