JOIN USControversy and expelled AIADMK MP Sasikala Pushpa seem to be conjoined twins.
The Rajya Sabha MP, who had stoked several rows in the past and had once claimed that she was slapped by "a leader" in late chief minister J Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden bungalow and sought police protection, has landed in a row yet again.
Pushpa's marriage with B Ramasamy is the latest controversy that she has landed herself in.
Justice M Venkadavardan of the family court in Madurai on Friday restrained Ramasamy from re-marrying anyone without "formally divorcing" his wife T Sathyapriya, 34, who has approached the court seeking conjugal rights and maintenance.
Pushpa and Ramasamy had sent invitations to close friends of their wedding on Monday at a five-star hotel in New Delhi.
After the invitation went viral on social media, Sathyapriya approached the Madurai Police asking the authorities to stop her husband's marriage with Pushpa.
Pushpa, hailing from Thoothukudi in southern Tamil Nadu, decided to marry Ramasamy after she and her husband Lingesvara Tilakan were granted divorce recently by a court in New Delhi.
"Pushpa is no stranger to controversies. Her growth in the AIADMK itself was controversial and every party worker knows how plum posts landed on her lap. However, the latest one is about personal life and it would be inappropriate for anyone to comment on it," a senior party leader said.
Pushpa hogged the national limelight in August 2016 when she dramatically rose from her seat in the Rajya Sabha and complained before the chairman that she was "slapped by a leader" after she was summoned to Poes Garden.
She was immediately expelled from the AIADMK, but she continues to function as its MP.
Just two days before she made the startling "disclosure", Sasikala Pushpa had slapped fellow parliamentarian Tiruchi Siva from the DMK for reportedly "speaking ill" of Jayalalithaa at the Delhi airport.
None in the political circles then subscribed to the MP's claims since pictures suggesting close proximity between her and Siva were widely circulated in social media just a few months ago.
However, the pictures were dismissed as "fake".
The Rajya Sabha MP's meteoric rise in the AIADMK since 2011 and her sudden fall within five years in 2016 had stunned many within and outside the party.
Pushpa came into prominence only in 2010 when she made it to the office-bearers list of the AIADMK's youth brigade and within a year, she was catapulted to the powerful post of Tuticorin mayor, the city with huge revenues owing to its ever-busy harbour.
Her swift growth in the party irked many, but none could raise their voice against her since she was "handpicked" by Jayalalithaa for the post.