It's mini-emergency now: NDA

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, JUNE 2. The DMK-headed NDA in Tamil Nadu on Friday night strongly condemned the AIADMK Government for adopting ``emergency-period-like-tactics'' in using the police to ``systematically wreak political vengeance'' on the DMK and its allies.

A unanimous resolution adopted at a meeting, chaired by the DMK president and former Chief Minister, Mr.M.Karunanidhi, said if the Jayalalitha regime persisted with this ``dictatorial attitude'', the NDA partners would chalk out a strategy to meet the situation. Asserting that the DMK always stood for maintaining peace, Mr.Karunanidhi told reporters later that a ``mini-emergency'' had come into vogue under the new dispensation. ``But having braved the Emergency itself, we will take this,'' he added.

To queries on Ms. Jayalalitha declaring in the Assembly today that the Sarkaria Commission had made out a scam in the Veeranam water supply project under the earlier DMK regime and that it would be left to the courts, Mr.Karunanidhi said he was not cowed down by such remarks.

``You read the Sarkaria Commission report and there is no finding against me of having taken any money in the Veeranam project,'' Mr.Karunanidhi said, adding, ``none of the charges made against me had been proved.''

``Let them (AIADMK) bring any case and I will face it; at the same time, let them also order a probe into the charges traded on the circumstances which led to MGR's death,'' he added.

Accusing Ms.Jayalalitha of repeating ``one lie after another'', Mr.Karunanidhi read out from his speech made in the previous Assembly, to refute a remark she attributed to him that Ms.Jayalalitha under her earlier tenure had signed a letter written to the NABARD on the farm loans waiver issue. Normally, Government letters were signed by officials, he emphasised.

The previous DMK Government had already written to the Centre to ban the Tamil extremist outfits, TNLA and TNRT.

Mr. Karunanidhi, to another query, said the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr.N.Chandrababu Naidu, would reply to Ms.Jayalalitha's charge that A.P. was ``part of the fraud'' committed on the Krishna waters issue.

The State BJP president, Dr.Kirubanidhi, the TMC-DF leader, Mr.P. Chidambaram, and leaders of the MGR-ADMK, the MGR-Kazhagam, the Dalit Panthers of India and the Puthiya Tamizhagam were among those who attended the meeting.

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