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Stoutly defending the STF led by the retired DGP, W.I.Dawaram, she insisted that there was ``good coordination'' between the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu STFs now and that the brigand would be brought to book. The Chief Minister's statement came in response to the TMC whip, C.Gnanasekaran's criticism on the operation against Veerappan. ``Why has the Tamil Nadu police, which is likened to Scotland Yard for its efficiency, still unable to capture Veerappan? How is that he continues to remain a challenge to the Tamil Nadu Government,'' he asked during the debate on demand for grants to the Police department. Were the STF personnel not enthusisatic about working under Mr. Dawaram, the member wondered. Also, he pointed out, the STF IG, K.Vijayakumar, who was specially drawn from the Border Security Force, to assist in the anti-Veerappan operations, was shifted to Chennai as Police Commissioner. ``When journalists and those posing as doctors could meet Veerappan, how is that the STF was unable to get at him yet?'' Immediately training her guns on the DMK, the Chief Minister said the Veerappan gang, which was reduced to just five members by the Dawaram-led STF during her previous regime, recouped its manpower and ammunition under the 1996-2001 DMK Government. After the DMK took charge in 1996, Mr. Dawaram suggested to the then Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, that he would continue the hunt against Veerappan. But, Mr. Karunanidhi told him, ``you are not necessary, and you can leave'', Ms.Jayalalithaa said. It was only during the DMK regime that political brokers and ``doctors'' met Veerappan. ``But they have been detained now,'' she said. Mr.Vijayakumar was shifted to Chennai considering the ``situation'' in the ``important city''. And, there was no ``laxity'' in the operation against Veerappan, she said. Objecting to her charge against the DMK regime, the party whip, E. Pugazhendi, asked who told her that Mr. Karunanidhi had rejected Mr. Dawaram's suggestion. To this, the Chief Minister said Mr. Dawaram himself had given her the information. However, Mr. Pugazhendi insisted that the DMK regime had not gone slow on the search for the brigand. Later, the Congress leader, D.Yasodha, said the Assembly had adopted a resolution for capture of the ``big dada'' ( LTTE chief, Prabakaran) but efforts should be taken to nab the ``small dada'' (Veerappan) too.
TNLA, TNRT ban
Intervening in the debate, Ms. Jayalalithaa also said the Government had written to the Centre several times for banning the extremist groups, Tamil Nationalist Liberation Army and Tamil Nadu Retrieval Troops, all over the country under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. However, the Centre had not conceded the demand as yet. But, Mr. Gnanasekaran insisted that the Government ban the organisations which eulogised the LTTE chief and the forest brigand as well.
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