Joining issue with Jayalalitha, who had accused him of adopting double standards and proving again that he was an expert in hoodwinking, DMK President Kalaignar M.Karunanidhi said the people of Tamil Nadu knew very well who adopted double standards, still he was reminding a few if they had perhaps forgotten.
It was Jayalalitha who severely rebuked judges in the Assembly and the very next day told the House that she was withdrawing whatever she said the previous day.
She informed the Assembly that he (Kalaignar) approached Indira Gandhi in 1972 to escape from Sarkaria Commission investigation and withdrew Cauvery water case. Immediately S.R. Balasubramanian (who was Leader of the Opposition then) rose up and said that what she stated was wrong and Sarkaria Commission came several years later in 1977. Then she managed telling it was slip of the tongue.”
In an interview to ‘The Indian Express’, she said that LTTE should be supported and Karunanidhi was not extending any help to them. But after some time she herself moved a resolution in the Assembly, for arresting LTTE leader Prabhakaran and bringing him to India.
In a statement issued on 8.5.1995 she said if anybody tried to find fault with Sasikala, action would be taken against them. In another statement on 27.8.1996 she announced that she was withdrawing all her connections with Sasikala from that day, but again brought her back.
Some months back she invited Kudankulam protestors to the Secretariat and talked to them, sent them to the PM along with TN Finance Minister, adopted a Cabinet resolution to stop works in the plant and now tried to suppress them.
Resenting Jayalalitha repeatedly accusing him of betraying TN in Cauvery issue to which he had to reply every time, Kalaignar said her talk on ‘betrayal’ was self-defeating because she wrote letter to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi that MGR could not function and hence he should be removed and she be made the Chief Minister.
Kalaignar said he had already replied in ‘Murasoli’ on 2.5.2002 to her charge that he did not object to the construction of Hemavathi dam. Only at the stage of planning and starting construction of Hemavathi and Kabini dams by Karnataka that the DMK rule headed by Anna was formed. After Anna’s demise, the resolution he introduced and adopted was ‘The House registers its deep anguish over Karnataka implementing Hemavathi, Kabini, Herangi and Suvarnavathi dam projects without getting prior consent of Tamil Nadu by properly informing it.
Next, she had stated that he withdrew the case without informing the Assembly and Council and it was also betrayal. Jayalalitha and the then Minister S.Ponnaiyan said this same lie in the Assembly and when the DMK refuted it and brought a Privilege motion against both of them, she saved herself from the situation, and their charge was proved to be unadulterated lie, Kalaignar said.
Only on the promise of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the case was withdrawn, that too vide the decision taken in the all-party leaders meeting with the condition that the case could be filed if TN government wished for. But as talks were not fruitful the state government came to the conclusion of demanding a tribunal, which was set up during V.P.Singh period due to the efforts of the DMK government, following which an interim order was issued by the Tribunal. “Only this has been stated by Jayalalitha in her own ‘cultured’ words in her statement as ‘Karunanidhi who is accustomed to only betraying Tamil Nadu’, Kalaignar pointed out.
Next she had found fault at his response that he did not want to reply based on press reports and did not want to give room for creating unnecessary differences between the two states due to such replies. He wanted people to understand which was better, whether holding talks to the extent possible and amicably resolve the issue and pulling quarrel by loose talk.
Referring to her charge that he could not even convene the meeting of the Cauvery River Authority despite being in power at the Centre and state in the past, Kalaignar said the Authority itself came into effect due to his efforts.
But after the announcement of setting up of the CRA, on 11.8.1998, she vehemently said “The Authority headed by the PM has no power to order and implement anything relating to Cauvery. This new Authority had been set up only as a debating forum unable to solve the Cauvery issue and preventing taking of any decision. There will not be any damage to Karnataka and only Tamil Nadu will be affected.”
The first meeting of the CRA was held in New Delhi on 28.10.1998 presided over by the PM and besides him, Kerala Chief Minister E.K.Nayanar and Puducherry Chief Minister R.V.Janakiraman participated. The second meeting under Prime Minister A.B.Vajpayee was held on 14.7.2000 in which besides him, S.M.Krishna (Karnataka), E.K.Nayanar (Kerala) and P.Shanmugam (Puducherry) participated. In that meeting, Karnataka agreed to release water due to Tamil Nadu till June in the next 30 days. “What reply will Jayalalitha give for the CRA meeting when I was CM and TN thus getting benefits?”, Kalaignar asked.
Jayalalitha told the Assembly on 22.2.2002 that the ADMK came out of the BJP-led alliance not accepting the ‘toothless’ and ‘non-functional’ CRA. In the Cabinet meeting on 21.6.2002 she declared that TN would not hereafter participate in meetings of the CRA, which was unable to effectively enforce its orders in the absence of any power. She announced this without realizing its consequences.
When asked about the decision of the ADMK government, Kalaignar said he told the media that ‘it was not a wise decision’ and all parties must be coordinated to get the intervention and assistance of the Centre to get sufficient water for Kuruvai cultivation. Only the tendency for changing all decisions taken during DMK rule was predominant in ADMK regime. During DMK rule efforts were made for getting water for Cauvery irrigation areas at the appropriate time. ADMK regime refused to attend CRA meets.”
After refusing to attend meeting, Jayalalitha the next day said, “Let us see if ‘invited’. But as far as he was concerned even while in opposition, he wrote to PM Vajpayee on 5.7.2002, to convene the meeting of CRA and in his reply on10.7.2002 the PM had said that he would look into it, accordingly the CRA was convened.
Believing that people would have forgotten her derisive comments about CRA, Jayalalitha attended the meeting in New Delhi on 27 August 2002. But instead of speaking cordially and find ways to get water, in her ill temperament she walked out forgetting the urgent importance of the issue. Her walk out set a precedence for the present walk out of Karnataka CM. But the affected were farmers of TN and their livelihood, Kalaignar said.
For the CRA meeting on 29.11.2002, the Karnataka CM reached Delhi on the previous day itself. But Jayalalitha cancelled her Delhi trip promising to attend till the last minute. The losers were only farmers of the state.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court pulled up the counsel for Tamil Nadu K.K.Venugopal for the severely objectionable letter Jayalalitha addressed to the PM expressing lack of confidence in the CRA and directed to withdraw the letter within four days. The counsel told, the court that the TN CM would again write to the PM soon withdrawing her earlier letter and expressing confidence in CRA. Accordingly in a letter she wrote to the PM on 16.11.2002, she said she had personally great regard for him and forgetting whatever she had already told she had confidence in the CRA.
“It is this Jayalalitha who assumed dual role says that I am expert in hoodwinking and betrayed on Cauvery issue. Is it proper and just for a Chief Minister to throw away standard and culture and use words in a haphazardous manner like this?” Kalaignar asked.
Pointing out his statement that ‘the Centre and State authorities should invite important representatives of Kudankulam protestors for talks, promise them to take all preventive measures to avert any danger, and also do the needful to complete them. This government should consider the protestors also as our people and not as if they are enemies.” In her statement Jayalalitha had said. “Thus Karunanidhi has exhaustively roared” (Ú£o KH¡»æU¡»wh®) Kalaignar asked people to see for themselves how submissively and with concern he had written and what sort of good cultur (?) with which Jayalalitha had reacted.
After reading his statement the commeners of that area spoke to him welcoming and appreciating it and met former MLA Appavu and told him. But Jayalalitha had said that he had made a ‘somersault’ in six months. But he did not know to make somersaults like her alternatively changing her stands.
In the statement issued on 10.9.2011 Jayalalitha said ‘no work shall be further carried out until a peaceful solution is reached in Kudankulam nuclear power project issue.” In the letter written to the Prime Minister on Sep.19 she asked for stopping works. On Sep.21 the protestors meet her at the Secretariat and thank her for the steps she had been taking. Following that, the Cabinet meets urgently on Sep.22 and adopts a resolution urging the Centre to halt works in Kudankulam until the fears of the local people are cleared.
The same Jayalalitha, who said all these to attract the protestors in a letter on 31.3.2012 demanded that the entire 2,000 MW power to be generated in KNPP should be allotted to Tamil Nadu ‘which is somersault. Aren’t the KNPP protestors laughing at the CM? What is double stand?” Kalaignar asked.
Next, despite replying to it several times Jayalalitha had accused the DMK rule for power shortage. The truth can be understood from a report on Sep.26. TNERC member K.Venugopal said, “Tamil Nadu would add 3,000 MW of power in the next six months through its power projects in North Chennai, Vallur and Mettur.” If they understand that this 3,000 MW of power is to be obtained from the projects started during DMK rule, they will not be muddying that the DMK government did nothing for power generation.
Now it is reported that power will be generated in KNPP only next year. If Jayalalitha had not encouraged the protestors to halt the works and cooperated by explaining true position, power generation would have started by the middle of this year and the present shortage would not have happened. Hence, for this power shortage and outrage the only reason is her negative action, Kalaignar asserted.
Now she has said the welfare assistance for Kudankulam area with Rs.500 crore will be done after peace is restored there. She announced months back after a decision in the Cabinet on 19.3.2012 that Rs.500 crore would be allocated for taking up development works including housing and streets. But not even one rupee was spent so far and only after he pointed out, she says that those works will be taken up after peace is restored. If works were started immediately after announcement the people of the area would have developed confidence and peace might have been restored. Hence Jayalalitha’s actions were the reason for the stir to continue there.
“Finally she has said that I am issuing contradictory statements and accustomed to fish in troubled waters”, Kalaignar said appealing to the people of TN, “You would have read her statement. You also read this detailed reply of me. I request you to come to the conclusion whose utterances are contradictory diverting attention by distortions and reductions, who is fishing in troubled waters and who issues statement without minimum culture and decency”.
“Jayalalitha has advised me to stop releasing contradictory statements in view of interests of Tamils. Only in consideration of the interests of Tamils I am writing daily. I don’t have the idea of stopping writing on the advice of Jayalalitha”, Kalaignar asserted.
It was Jayalalitha who severely rebuked judges in the Assembly and the very next day told the House that she was withdrawing whatever she said the previous day.
She informed the Assembly that he (Kalaignar) approached Indira Gandhi in 1972 to escape from Sarkaria Commission investigation and withdrew Cauvery water case. Immediately S.R. Balasubramanian (who was Leader of the Opposition then) rose up and said that what she stated was wrong and Sarkaria Commission came several years later in 1977. Then she managed telling it was slip of the tongue.”
In an interview to ‘The Indian Express’, she said that LTTE should be supported and Karunanidhi was not extending any help to them. But after some time she herself moved a resolution in the Assembly, for arresting LTTE leader Prabhakaran and bringing him to India.
In a statement issued on 8.5.1995 she said if anybody tried to find fault with Sasikala, action would be taken against them. In another statement on 27.8.1996 she announced that she was withdrawing all her connections with Sasikala from that day, but again brought her back.
Some months back she invited Kudankulam protestors to the Secretariat and talked to them, sent them to the PM along with TN Finance Minister, adopted a Cabinet resolution to stop works in the plant and now tried to suppress them.
Resenting Jayalalitha repeatedly accusing him of betraying TN in Cauvery issue to which he had to reply every time, Kalaignar said her talk on ‘betrayal’ was self-defeating because she wrote letter to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi that MGR could not function and hence he should be removed and she be made the Chief Minister.
Kalaignar said he had already replied in ‘Murasoli’ on 2.5.2002 to her charge that he did not object to the construction of Hemavathi dam. Only at the stage of planning and starting construction of Hemavathi and Kabini dams by Karnataka that the DMK rule headed by Anna was formed. After Anna’s demise, the resolution he introduced and adopted was ‘The House registers its deep anguish over Karnataka implementing Hemavathi, Kabini, Herangi and Suvarnavathi dam projects without getting prior consent of Tamil Nadu by properly informing it.
Next, she had stated that he withdrew the case without informing the Assembly and Council and it was also betrayal. Jayalalitha and the then Minister S.Ponnaiyan said this same lie in the Assembly and when the DMK refuted it and brought a Privilege motion against both of them, she saved herself from the situation, and their charge was proved to be unadulterated lie, Kalaignar said.
Only on the promise of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the case was withdrawn, that too vide the decision taken in the all-party leaders meeting with the condition that the case could be filed if TN government wished for. But as talks were not fruitful the state government came to the conclusion of demanding a tribunal, which was set up during V.P.Singh period due to the efforts of the DMK government, following which an interim order was issued by the Tribunal. “Only this has been stated by Jayalalitha in her own ‘cultured’ words in her statement as ‘Karunanidhi who is accustomed to only betraying Tamil Nadu’, Kalaignar pointed out.
Next she had found fault at his response that he did not want to reply based on press reports and did not want to give room for creating unnecessary differences between the two states due to such replies. He wanted people to understand which was better, whether holding talks to the extent possible and amicably resolve the issue and pulling quarrel by loose talk.
Referring to her charge that he could not even convene the meeting of the Cauvery River Authority despite being in power at the Centre and state in the past, Kalaignar said the Authority itself came into effect due to his efforts.
But after the announcement of setting up of the CRA, on 11.8.1998, she vehemently said “The Authority headed by the PM has no power to order and implement anything relating to Cauvery. This new Authority had been set up only as a debating forum unable to solve the Cauvery issue and preventing taking of any decision. There will not be any damage to Karnataka and only Tamil Nadu will be affected.”
The first meeting of the CRA was held in New Delhi on 28.10.1998 presided over by the PM and besides him, Kerala Chief Minister E.K.Nayanar and Puducherry Chief Minister R.V.Janakiraman participated. The second meeting under Prime Minister A.B.Vajpayee was held on 14.7.2000 in which besides him, S.M.Krishna (Karnataka), E.K.Nayanar (Kerala) and P.Shanmugam (Puducherry) participated. In that meeting, Karnataka agreed to release water due to Tamil Nadu till June in the next 30 days. “What reply will Jayalalitha give for the CRA meeting when I was CM and TN thus getting benefits?”, Kalaignar asked.
Jayalalitha told the Assembly on 22.2.2002 that the ADMK came out of the BJP-led alliance not accepting the ‘toothless’ and ‘non-functional’ CRA. In the Cabinet meeting on 21.6.2002 she declared that TN would not hereafter participate in meetings of the CRA, which was unable to effectively enforce its orders in the absence of any power. She announced this without realizing its consequences.
When asked about the decision of the ADMK government, Kalaignar said he told the media that ‘it was not a wise decision’ and all parties must be coordinated to get the intervention and assistance of the Centre to get sufficient water for Kuruvai cultivation. Only the tendency for changing all decisions taken during DMK rule was predominant in ADMK regime. During DMK rule efforts were made for getting water for Cauvery irrigation areas at the appropriate time. ADMK regime refused to attend CRA meets.”
After refusing to attend meeting, Jayalalitha the next day said, “Let us see if ‘invited’. But as far as he was concerned even while in opposition, he wrote to PM Vajpayee on 5.7.2002, to convene the meeting of CRA and in his reply on10.7.2002 the PM had said that he would look into it, accordingly the CRA was convened.
Believing that people would have forgotten her derisive comments about CRA, Jayalalitha attended the meeting in New Delhi on 27 August 2002. But instead of speaking cordially and find ways to get water, in her ill temperament she walked out forgetting the urgent importance of the issue. Her walk out set a precedence for the present walk out of Karnataka CM. But the affected were farmers of TN and their livelihood, Kalaignar said.
For the CRA meeting on 29.11.2002, the Karnataka CM reached Delhi on the previous day itself. But Jayalalitha cancelled her Delhi trip promising to attend till the last minute. The losers were only farmers of the state.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court pulled up the counsel for Tamil Nadu K.K.Venugopal for the severely objectionable letter Jayalalitha addressed to the PM expressing lack of confidence in the CRA and directed to withdraw the letter within four days. The counsel told, the court that the TN CM would again write to the PM soon withdrawing her earlier letter and expressing confidence in CRA. Accordingly in a letter she wrote to the PM on 16.11.2002, she said she had personally great regard for him and forgetting whatever she had already told she had confidence in the CRA.
“It is this Jayalalitha who assumed dual role says that I am expert in hoodwinking and betrayed on Cauvery issue. Is it proper and just for a Chief Minister to throw away standard and culture and use words in a haphazardous manner like this?” Kalaignar asked.
Pointing out his statement that ‘the Centre and State authorities should invite important representatives of Kudankulam protestors for talks, promise them to take all preventive measures to avert any danger, and also do the needful to complete them. This government should consider the protestors also as our people and not as if they are enemies.” In her statement Jayalalitha had said. “Thus Karunanidhi has exhaustively roared” (Ú£o KH¡»æU¡»wh®) Kalaignar asked people to see for themselves how submissively and with concern he had written and what sort of good cultur (?) with which Jayalalitha had reacted.
After reading his statement the commeners of that area spoke to him welcoming and appreciating it and met former MLA Appavu and told him. But Jayalalitha had said that he had made a ‘somersault’ in six months. But he did not know to make somersaults like her alternatively changing her stands.
In the statement issued on 10.9.2011 Jayalalitha said ‘no work shall be further carried out until a peaceful solution is reached in Kudankulam nuclear power project issue.” In the letter written to the Prime Minister on Sep.19 she asked for stopping works. On Sep.21 the protestors meet her at the Secretariat and thank her for the steps she had been taking. Following that, the Cabinet meets urgently on Sep.22 and adopts a resolution urging the Centre to halt works in Kudankulam until the fears of the local people are cleared.
The same Jayalalitha, who said all these to attract the protestors in a letter on 31.3.2012 demanded that the entire 2,000 MW power to be generated in KNPP should be allotted to Tamil Nadu ‘which is somersault. Aren’t the KNPP protestors laughing at the CM? What is double stand?” Kalaignar asked.
Next, despite replying to it several times Jayalalitha had accused the DMK rule for power shortage. The truth can be understood from a report on Sep.26. TNERC member K.Venugopal said, “Tamil Nadu would add 3,000 MW of power in the next six months through its power projects in North Chennai, Vallur and Mettur.” If they understand that this 3,000 MW of power is to be obtained from the projects started during DMK rule, they will not be muddying that the DMK government did nothing for power generation.
Now it is reported that power will be generated in KNPP only next year. If Jayalalitha had not encouraged the protestors to halt the works and cooperated by explaining true position, power generation would have started by the middle of this year and the present shortage would not have happened. Hence, for this power shortage and outrage the only reason is her negative action, Kalaignar asserted.
Now she has said the welfare assistance for Kudankulam area with Rs.500 crore will be done after peace is restored there. She announced months back after a decision in the Cabinet on 19.3.2012 that Rs.500 crore would be allocated for taking up development works including housing and streets. But not even one rupee was spent so far and only after he pointed out, she says that those works will be taken up after peace is restored. If works were started immediately after announcement the people of the area would have developed confidence and peace might have been restored. Hence Jayalalitha’s actions were the reason for the stir to continue there.
“Finally she has said that I am issuing contradictory statements and accustomed to fish in troubled waters”, Kalaignar said appealing to the people of TN, “You would have read her statement. You also read this detailed reply of me. I request you to come to the conclusion whose utterances are contradictory diverting attention by distortions and reductions, who is fishing in troubled waters and who issues statement without minimum culture and decency”.
“Jayalalitha has advised me to stop releasing contradictory statements in view of interests of Tamils. Only in consideration of the interests of Tamils I am writing daily. I don’t have the idea of stopping writing on the advice of Jayalalitha”, Kalaignar asserted.
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