“Is Tamil Nadu a state or a jungle?” roared the ex-chief minister that the government was foisting ‘false’ cases on the DMK workers.
He was addressing a public rally here on Saturday to condemn the recent arrests for alleged land-grabbing by DMK members.
Mr Karunanidhi alleged that the party’s Tiruvarur district secretary was arrested on a false complaint for the only reason that he accompanied DMK treasurer M.K. Stalin in his van.
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Taking a strong exception to the detention of functionary Poondi Kalaivanan under the Goondas Act, DMK chief Mr Karunanidhi said Kalaivanan was not a goonda.
This government should use law as a last resort. The truth was that he was detained under the Goondas Act only to intimidate other DMK workers, Mr Karunanidhi said at a rally organized here to condemn the arrests for alleged land-grabbing by DMK members.
Former minister Veerapandi Arumugam and south Chennai district secretary J. Anbazhagan were also arrested on false complaints, he added.
With the AIADMK government thus wreaking vengeance on his party, people (read DMK cadre) were now “going to bed with the fear as to whose face they would see on waking up in the morning”, the DMK chief said.
He recalled that his government had arrested the AIADMK leader Ms Jayalalithaa only due to a court directive. “There was no other go”.
Mr Karunanidhi also took a dig at the media for “blowing out of proportion anything connected with the DMK”.
Also, the media was keeping mum at the faults of Ms Jayalalithaa “only because she was born in an upper caste”.
No newspaper was willing to report that her disproportionate wealth case being heard in a Bangalore court got adjourned 130 times, he said.
Earlier, the DMK leader paid homage at the tomb of his mother Anjugam Ammaiyar in Kattur village near Tiruvarur.
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