JOIN USThe controversial MP and Ramasamy, pro-Vice Chancellor of Oriental Institute of Science and Technology University, were set to tie the knot at a five-star hotel in New Delhi on Monday morning.
Sathyapriya, who had approached the family court seeking conjugal rights and maintenance, appealed before it to restrain Ramasamy from marrying Sasikala Pushpa. The woman, with a toddler, had appeared before the media with a fervent plea to her husband that she would like to lead a happy life with him.
"This court upon consideration of these circumstances finds that the petitioner has prima facie established the subsistence of a valid marriage and if at all the respondent wants to have another marriage, he has to seek a valid relief before the court of law and then also contract another marriage. Hence, under these circumstances, this court feels that it would be just and reasonable to stay the contract of marriage if any by the respondent with any other lady till the disposal of the main HMOP," the order by Judge N Venkadavaradhan issued on Friday said.
The woman claims that she got married to Ramasamy in 2014 and they moved to New Delhi, where he claimed to have worked as a judge. When she questioned her about his job profile after the marriage, Ramasamy would physically assault her, the woman has alleged. She has also claimed that she came to Madurai in 2016 for the delivery of her baby.
"I want to live with my husband," she said. Efforts to reach Sasikala Pushpa and Ramasamy failed.
Sasikala Pushpa, who dramatically claimed that "a leader" slapped her in the palatial Poes Garden residence of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa in August 2016, has been in the news for all wrong reasons. Though a political novice in 2010 when she was appointed to a key party post, her growth in the AIADMK was meteoric as she landed in plum posts like Tuticorin Mayor (2011) and Rajya Sabha MP (2014).
However, the fall was also quicker with Jayalalithaa removing her from party posts after an alleged audio in which she was criticising the flood relief work of the government was leaked. Things went from bad to worse for Sasikala Pushpa when she slapped fellow Parliamentarian Tiruchi Siva from DMK for "abusing Jayalalithaa." None subscribed to her view since photos of them both in close proximity were shared widely in social media and Jayalalithaa sacked her from the AIADMK.
And when Jayalalithaa was in the hospital, Sasikala Pushpa was back to what she is best, at stoking controversies. She alleged that Jayalalithaa was poisoned by V K Sasikala and her family and had even attempted to contest the latter's appointment as interim general secretary of the AIADMK after the former's death.