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Jaya repeats demand for dismissing Karunanidhi government

All India Anna DMK chief J Jayalalitha today reiterated her demand for the dismissal of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government in Tamil Nadu, alleging that terrorism has taken deep roots in the state.

In a statement in Madras, she said the biggest danger engulfing the country now was terrorism.

"Terrorism and extremism are deeply entrenched in the state" for which the Karunanidhi government was responsible, she alleged.

If the DMK government was not dismissed, it would imply that the Centre was not seriously concerned about containing terrorism, she added.

Jayalalitha also claimed that doubts have arisen in the minds of the people that the Bharatiya Janata Party was using Article 356 to carry out its strategy of engineering a split in the Rashtriya Janata Dal led by Laloo Prasad Yadav and Samajwadi Party led by Mulayam Singh Yadav to form a BJP-Samata Party government in Bihar.

She alleged that by recommending the dismissal of the Rabri Devi government in Bihar and keeping the state assembly under suspended animation, the BJP was trying to engineer defections from both the RJD and the Samata Party to cobble together a majority in the Lok Sabha for the BJP-led coalition government.

Jayalalitha said, "No room should be given for such suspicion." Encouraging "horse trading" for "splitting political parties to form a government either at the state or at the national level will only be construed as an anti-democratic act", she added.

She said engineering defections would be tantamount to showing disrespect to the people's verdict, which should be respected and defections discouraged.

She suggested that without giving room for unnecessary acrimony and problems, the proper course of action would be to avert keeping the assembly under suspended animation and resorting to a fresh election. "It would be better to go to the people again," she added.

UNI

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