Sign of growing terrorism: DMK

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, NOV. 4. The DMK president, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, today attributed the reported threat from the Tamil Nadu Liberation Army to the former Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalithaa, through an e-mail, to the ``deteriorating law and order situation and the growing terrorist activities in the State''.

Though he did not want to comment on the ``genuineness'' of the threat, Mr. Karunanidhi, talking to newsmen here, said the warning that she would be killed on court premises was tantamount to threatening the court itself. When reporters asked him whether the threat was a ploy to stay away from the court, he said, ``I leave it to your imagination''.

Referring to the charge that the TNLA had surfaced only during the previous DMK regime when the Kannada matinee idol, Dr. Rajkumar, was kidnapped by forest brigand, Veerappan, Mr. Karunanidhi claimed that when his government was making preparations to make Veerappan surrender, the attempt was spoiled by opposition leaders, though he did not want to identify them.

Subsequently when the AIADMK came to power it launched an `ambitious operation' to nab Veerappan but even after six months nothing had come out of it. On the STF Commander, Mr. W. I. Dawaram's charge that efforts to capture Veerappan were delayed as the erstwhile DMK Government soft-pedalled the whole issue, Mr. Karunanidhi said it had become a habit of the present Government to blame the DMK for its own `inefficiency'.

Reiterating the charge that the AIADMK Government had failed on all fronts, Mr. Karunanidhi said not a single scheme, announced by the Government at various times in the last six months, had taken any concrete shape. There was no point in blaming the previous regime for present financial mess as he had already replied to that charge. ``The Government in the last six months has done nothing to improve the financial position''.

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