‘The speeches were like lullaby. But someone has to come out with the truth,’ J. Jayalalitha by Special Correspondent in Chennai
(February 01, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) Alleging that the State was becoming a base of the LTTE besides turning into a sanctury of arms Jayalalithaa accused the government of not being able to protect even leaders of friendly parties and referred to the attack on Tamilnadu Congress Committee president M Krishnaswamy.
(February 01, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) Alleging that the State was becoming a base of the LTTE besides turning into a sanctury of arms Jayalalithaa accused the government of not being able to protect even leaders of friendly parties and referred to the attack on Tamilnadu Congress Committee president M Krishnaswamy.
Speaking on the motion of thanks to the Governor’s address on the conculding day of the current session, Jayalalithaa said the address of the Governor was like a curtain raiser to the policies and programmes of a government.
‘But this address has no vision in it,’ the AIADMK leader said and added that many were only singing paeans to the government. ‘The speeches were like lullaby. But someone has to come out with the truth,’ she said and added that instead of shouldering responsibilities (on many issues), the State government cast the burden on the Union government.
Accusing the State government of compromising on the State’s rights in order to satisfy th Centre, Jayalalithaa alleged that the State was fast becoming a haven of anti-socials and extremists. She also claimed that during her reign, the State was peaceful.
Referring to a meeting of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi leader Thirumavalavan which allegedly supported the banned LTTE, and subsequent developments, Jayalalithaa said the Supreme Court had only said that it was not willing to give any opinion on the issue in a case related to banned outfits.
She said that Karunandihi, speaking on the subject in the Assembly had said that even the Supreme Court had opined that extending moral support to banned outfits was not an offence.
Interestingly, even as the AIADMK chief was speaking on the issue related to the LTTE, she was countered by senior minister Arcot N Veersamy and Ponmudi and at one point the debate took a serious turn when Jayalalithaa referred to Finance Minister and senior DMK leader Anbazhagan as ‘only an assistant profesor.’
Reacting sharply, minister Duraimurugan said when she was addresssed as ‘Revolutionary leader (puratchi Thalaivi),’ when she had done nothing to deserve that epithet, there was nothing wrong in addressing Anbazhagan as professor.
The AIADMK reacted angrily and the DMK members too showed their lung power to the maximum possible extent.
At this juncture, when Anbazhagan, in a phrase with loaded meaning, said that they too knew to speak on what some people were up to years back, it again vitiated the situation as AIADMK members took strong exception to it.
They started shouting slogans and rushed towards treasury benches and expecting serious trouble the Speaker adjourned the House for ten minutes.
When the House resumed, the Speaker appealed to all to extend cooperation for peaceful conduct of the House and Jayalalithaa continued her speech.
She wanted to know why action was not taken against VCK leader Thirumavalavan for his pro-LTTE speech under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 and at this VCK member Selvam objected to the views of the AIADMK leader and this led to commotion for sometime.
‘But this address has no vision in it,’ the AIADMK leader said and added that many were only singing paeans to the government. ‘The speeches were like lullaby. But someone has to come out with the truth,’ she said and added that instead of shouldering responsibilities (on many issues), the State government cast the burden on the Union government.
Accusing the State government of compromising on the State’s rights in order to satisfy th Centre, Jayalalithaa alleged that the State was fast becoming a haven of anti-socials and extremists. She also claimed that during her reign, the State was peaceful.
Referring to a meeting of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi leader Thirumavalavan which allegedly supported the banned LTTE, and subsequent developments, Jayalalithaa said the Supreme Court had only said that it was not willing to give any opinion on the issue in a case related to banned outfits.
She said that Karunandihi, speaking on the subject in the Assembly had said that even the Supreme Court had opined that extending moral support to banned outfits was not an offence.
Interestingly, even as the AIADMK chief was speaking on the issue related to the LTTE, she was countered by senior minister Arcot N Veersamy and Ponmudi and at one point the debate took a serious turn when Jayalalithaa referred to Finance Minister and senior DMK leader Anbazhagan as ‘only an assistant profesor.’
Reacting sharply, minister Duraimurugan said when she was addresssed as ‘Revolutionary leader (puratchi Thalaivi),’ when she had done nothing to deserve that epithet, there was nothing wrong in addressing Anbazhagan as professor.
The AIADMK reacted angrily and the DMK members too showed their lung power to the maximum possible extent.
At this juncture, when Anbazhagan, in a phrase with loaded meaning, said that they too knew to speak on what some people were up to years back, it again vitiated the situation as AIADMK members took strong exception to it.
They started shouting slogans and rushed towards treasury benches and expecting serious trouble the Speaker adjourned the House for ten minutes.
When the House resumed, the Speaker appealed to all to extend cooperation for peaceful conduct of the House and Jayalalithaa continued her speech.
She wanted to know why action was not taken against VCK leader Thirumavalavan for his pro-LTTE speech under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 and at this VCK member Selvam objected to the views of the AIADMK leader and this led to commotion for sometime.
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