Swamy for forming panel to 'save democracy' in TN

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, AUG. 20. The Janata Party president, Dr. Subramanian Swamy, today called for the formation of a national committee to ``save democracy'' in Tamil Nadu.

The committee could have political personalities, but it should not be constituted on party lines, he told reporters.

Apart from leaders of political parties, it should have prominent people from different walks of life as members. He would meet the DMK president, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, and discuss this issue.

The committee should help combat lawlessness in the State. Democracy was in peril, he added.

Tamil Nadu, he said, was a fit case for the invocation of Article 356 of the Constitution after the incidents surrounding the arrest of Mr. Karunanidhi, the atrocities of the police and the attack on the freedom of the press.

Dr. Swamy said the DMK should quit the NDA if the Vajpayee Government did not take further action against the AIADMK Government in the State. The transfer of three police officers to New Delhi was no punishment and it betrayed the cowardice of the Centre, he added.

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