Since the footage showed Jayalalithaa in a ‘nightie’ (a night dress), it was not released earlier, he said. She had “lost weight” and it wouldn’t have been appropriate to release the footage back then, he added.
“None would have seen Amma (Jayalalithaa) in a nightie, not even any [party] functionary. Even when [former Prime Minister] Rajiv Gandhi visited Amma after she met with an accident in 1989, she was fully attired. She always maintained that dignity,” Mr. Dhinakaran said, adding that his aunt had advised against using it for the by-election campaign in the Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency.
