DMK Deputy General Secretary and former Minister M. Duraimurugan has termed incredulous Chief Minister Jayalalitha’s statement that cases pertaining to the Mullaiperiyar dam row were transferred to the Supreme Court from the Madras and Kerala High Courts in 2002 during the ADMK rule, referring to Jayalalitha’s criticism of the DMK at a meeting in Madurai on Aug 22. The meeting was said to have been organised by the Cumbum Valley farmers to ‘felicitate’ her for helping to secure justice to the State.
In a statement, Duraimurugan, former PWD Minister, said that it has become customary for Jayalalitha to claim sole credit for herself in the issues of Cauvery and Mullaiperiyar. As she was in power there were people to nod for whatever she bluffed. Earlier she arranged for a felicitation function at Thanjavur as if she was the sole fighter for the cause of Cauvery water and won the rights of TN and received the title ‘Ponniyin Selvi’. But still the Cauvery River Management Board has not been set up.
Now in a similar manner claiming sole credit for the victory in Mullaiperiyar issue, and attended the felicitation function organised by her party functionaries and received the title ‘Living Penny Cuick’. “Of course we are not bothered about her party organising felicitation for her and conferring titles in the name of the people. But we strongly condemn her false accusations against Kalaignar by covering up facts”, he said.
Duraimurugan posed a series of questions to Jayalalitha on the issue.
“Was it Kalaignar or the ADMK regime which in 1979 betrayed Tamil people by handing over slavery bond to Kerala undertaking to reduce water storage in the dam from 152 feet to 136 feet? Was it not the ADMK regime? Is not that betrayal continued to be a serial story till date”, he asked.
Lie 1. “Karunanidhi is not interested in Mullaiperiyar issue”- this is one of the charges levelled by her.
When Kalaignar was the Chief Minister the letters he wrote to Kerala Chief Minister for finding amicable solution to the issue= 10; to the Union Minister= 1. Held talks with the Kerala Chief Minister five times. But Jayalalitha wrote only three letters and she never held talks with her Kerala counterpart. This alone is enough to show who was interested in the issue, Duraimurugan said.
Lie 2. “When Kerala adopted an amendment to nullify the order of the Supreme Court for raising the storage level from 136 feet to 142 feet, it was the government led by her that filed a petition against it in the apex court in 2006” claimed Jayalalitha.
He said the ADMK government just filed a petition against the ordinance promulgated by Kerala to amend the Kerala Irrigation and Water Conservation Act, 2003. The ordinance was meant to nullify the Supreme Court’s 2006 order. But the ADMK government did not even bother to get the petition numbered and went home,” he said adding she believed that people of Madurai would not understand all these facts.
Lie 3. “In 2002 the pending cases in the Madras and Kerala High Courts on this issue were transferred to the Supreme Court. During hearing in the apex court she, as the Chief Minister, invited PWD officials and engineering and legal experts and discussed in detail on arguments to be placed” she has claimed.
Of all the lies that she told in Madurai meeting this was the biggest lie. What was true?
While Tamil Nadu farmers filed a petition in the Madras High Court in favour of raising the level to 152 feet, their Kerala counterparts filed a petition in the Kerala High Court against any such move. Subramanian Swamy, now in the BJP, also filed a petition backing Tamil Nadu’s stand. The Mullaperiyar Environment Protection Forum objected to it.
The petition for transfer of all cases — pertaining to the raising of the level beyond 136 feet — was filed on December 14, 1998, by the Tamil Nadu government. “Who was in power in 1998? Jayalalitha or our leader Kalaignar ? Was it not Kalaignar,” he asked. But Jayalalitha has claimed that these petitions were transferred in 2002. “Can a person holding such an exalted position speak a lie like this in front of the people”, he asked.
“The DMK government filed a petition for placing all these petitions before the Supreme Court, which allowed Tamil Nadu to raise the level to 142 feet on February 27, 2006,” he said and asked ‘Who was the reason for it? Was it not Kalaignar?”. Hence it was Kalaignar who obtained the final order in the issue.
Duraimurugan said the DMK President’s consistent efforts helped the State get justice, and it was he who nominated Justice A.R. Lakshmanan as the State’s representative to the empowered committee, headed by the former Chief Justice of India, A.S. Anand. “The committee’s report put at rest the controversy over raising the level. If any doubt persisted let her go through the demand for grants for PWD department for 2011-12 tabled in the Assembly by ADMK government’s PWD Minister”, Duraimurugan said.
In a statement, Duraimurugan, former PWD Minister, said that it has become customary for Jayalalitha to claim sole credit for herself in the issues of Cauvery and Mullaiperiyar. As she was in power there were people to nod for whatever she bluffed. Earlier she arranged for a felicitation function at Thanjavur as if she was the sole fighter for the cause of Cauvery water and won the rights of TN and received the title ‘Ponniyin Selvi’. But still the Cauvery River Management Board has not been set up.
Now in a similar manner claiming sole credit for the victory in Mullaiperiyar issue, and attended the felicitation function organised by her party functionaries and received the title ‘Living Penny Cuick’. “Of course we are not bothered about her party organising felicitation for her and conferring titles in the name of the people. But we strongly condemn her false accusations against Kalaignar by covering up facts”, he said.
Duraimurugan posed a series of questions to Jayalalitha on the issue.
“Was it Kalaignar or the ADMK regime which in 1979 betrayed Tamil people by handing over slavery bond to Kerala undertaking to reduce water storage in the dam from 152 feet to 136 feet? Was it not the ADMK regime? Is not that betrayal continued to be a serial story till date”, he asked.
Lie 1. “Karunanidhi is not interested in Mullaiperiyar issue”- this is one of the charges levelled by her.
When Kalaignar was the Chief Minister the letters he wrote to Kerala Chief Minister for finding amicable solution to the issue= 10; to the Union Minister= 1. Held talks with the Kerala Chief Minister five times. But Jayalalitha wrote only three letters and she never held talks with her Kerala counterpart. This alone is enough to show who was interested in the issue, Duraimurugan said.
Lie 2. “When Kerala adopted an amendment to nullify the order of the Supreme Court for raising the storage level from 136 feet to 142 feet, it was the government led by her that filed a petition against it in the apex court in 2006” claimed Jayalalitha.
He said the ADMK government just filed a petition against the ordinance promulgated by Kerala to amend the Kerala Irrigation and Water Conservation Act, 2003. The ordinance was meant to nullify the Supreme Court’s 2006 order. But the ADMK government did not even bother to get the petition numbered and went home,” he said adding she believed that people of Madurai would not understand all these facts.
Lie 3. “In 2002 the pending cases in the Madras and Kerala High Courts on this issue were transferred to the Supreme Court. During hearing in the apex court she, as the Chief Minister, invited PWD officials and engineering and legal experts and discussed in detail on arguments to be placed” she has claimed.
Of all the lies that she told in Madurai meeting this was the biggest lie. What was true?
While Tamil Nadu farmers filed a petition in the Madras High Court in favour of raising the level to 152 feet, their Kerala counterparts filed a petition in the Kerala High Court against any such move. Subramanian Swamy, now in the BJP, also filed a petition backing Tamil Nadu’s stand. The Mullaperiyar Environment Protection Forum objected to it.
The petition for transfer of all cases — pertaining to the raising of the level beyond 136 feet — was filed on December 14, 1998, by the Tamil Nadu government. “Who was in power in 1998? Jayalalitha or our leader Kalaignar ? Was it not Kalaignar,” he asked. But Jayalalitha has claimed that these petitions were transferred in 2002. “Can a person holding such an exalted position speak a lie like this in front of the people”, he asked.
“The DMK government filed a petition for placing all these petitions before the Supreme Court, which allowed Tamil Nadu to raise the level to 142 feet on February 27, 2006,” he said and asked ‘Who was the reason for it? Was it not Kalaignar?”. Hence it was Kalaignar who obtained the final order in the issue.
Duraimurugan said the DMK President’s consistent efforts helped the State get justice, and it was he who nominated Justice A.R. Lakshmanan as the State’s representative to the empowered committee, headed by the former Chief Justice of India, A.S. Anand. “The committee’s report put at rest the controversy over raising the level. If any doubt persisted let her go through the demand for grants for PWD department for 2011-12 tabled in the Assembly by ADMK government’s PWD Minister”, Duraimurugan said.
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