Lashing out at the ADMK regime for attempting to cripple the functioning of the opposition parties by filing defamation cases and evicting them enmasse from the Assembly, DMK President Kalaignar took exception to the double standard adopted by the regime towards the ruling and opposition parties in police cases and legislature.
Speaking at a huge public meeting in Tiruvanmiyur in Chennai on ‘Fate of Democracy in the Assembly’ on April 24, Kalaignar said he had been serving in TN Assembly continuously from 1957 for over 55 years without facing defeat in any election and also served as Chief Minister for five terms.
Referring to the earlier speakers describing how democracy in the Assembly was being given farewell by the present rulers, Kalaignar recalled an incident in the same House in 1957 during the rule of Kamarajar for people to understand the difference. During a debate on grants for department of Backward Classes welfare, he as opposition member raised a ‘point of order’ and pointed out that the names of backward classes and verbs in sentences referring to them were in singular where as the corresponding names and verbs of forward communities were in plural. The then Speaker U. Krishna Rao, a gentleman, permitted him to raise the issue. As Chief Minister Kamarajar asked the then Home Minister Kakkan who also held the portfolio of Backward classes welfare to explain the Minister admitted the mistake and undertook to rectify it. Now if such questions were raised in the House those who asked would only get suspension for 10 days.
Kalaignar referred to a lengthy list of names read out earlier how two yardsticks were used for ruling party men and opposition parties in the Assembly and double standards adopted for them by the police under this regime. The rulers were misusing the police for framing charges against cadre of opposition parties. Particularly they were targeting DMK and the party of brother Vijayakanth to suppress and destroy them. “In this government there is one justice for the opposition and another for ADMK men. The police is not acting on complaints against ruling party members”, he alleged and cited the case of Dr.Rani of Tiruchi, who complained to the police that a former minister Paranjothi married her as second wife took jewels from her and cheated her. The complaint file in December 2011 was not at all acted upon despite court orders. When the case came for hearing recently none from the police department appeared and the counsel for Rani had told the court that inspector Govindaraj went ro her house and threatened her and she complained about it on 18.12.2012 but no action was taken. On coming out of the court she had told reporters that even after 538 days the police had not yet filed charge sheet and for any danger to the lives of her and her children the ADMK MLA would be responsible.
Reports about this case was being published in dailies for the past one and a half year byt for some reason this was not known to the CM who did not mention about this in her lengthy reply to the debate on grants for police department. “She knows what would have happened if she had mentioned about it and hence she completely covered it up. I don’t know why this lady, who praises herself as a sage, having no attachment to anything, always fair and administer appropriate punishment to whomsoever committing mistakes, do not know the suffering of this woman Dr.Rani”, Kalaignar said. He also cited the case of missing person Gokul who was kidnapped on June3,2011 by a gang deputed by Minister Senthil Balaji who took over his ancestral property without any payment. After he complained about this in Karur court on January 5 his whereabouts were not known. The ‘sage’ lady did not want to get details about this case nor did she ask officials to probe it. “Should the ‘honest’ CM take action against her minister?”
Kalaignar also referred to an article in pro-ruling party ‘Junior Vikatan’ about law and order situation in the state becoming the place of execution. Citing several cases murder that took place in broad day light in the vicinity of police stations the weekly reported that even police officials conceded that such incidents had never happened so far in the state. Kalaignar said the mentality of the rulers seemed to be that non-ADMK persons should die or get punished. Former Minister Veerapandi Arumugam was a healthy man but the ADMK regime tortured him by repeatedly arresting and lodging in jails resulting in his untimely death.
He called upon the DMK cadre to rise up against the oppression of the regime and make it accountable for all its misdeeds.
Democracy in peril
DMK Treasurer and Legislative Party leader Thalapathi M.K.Stalin alleged that the legislature had been reduced to a forum to sing paens for the Chief Minster and democracy pushed into deep pit. Denying the ruling party’s charge that the DMK MLAs were disrupting the proceedings of the Assembly, he said that there were days when they sat through the day till the ministers completed their replies during the debate. “However there are ministers who deliberately level charges against the DMK and its leader just to please their leader. Against Assembly rules the ruling party members were speaking in praise of Jayalalitha for ten minutes to ask a single sentence question during Question Hour and also during Zero hour colossally wasting precious time to speak on the problems of people. When DMK members wanted to register their protest to wanton provocative remarks by the ministers and ADMK members, the Speaker denied them permission and evicted them, he said.
Disputing the claims made by Jayalalitha in the Assembly on law and order situation in the State, he referred to the crimes statistics on the website of State Crimes Records bureau which pointed a different picture. Sasikala’s husband M.Natarajan was arrested in six cases and lodged in prison for 82 days before coming out on bail. But no charge sheet had been filed against him so far. But for DMK men they register cases immediately and when they come out on bail new cases were foisted and arrested again, he said.
General Secretary Prof.K.Anbazhagan said that law of the land was being denigrated in the TN Assembly by converting it into a pace conducted according to the whims and fancies of ruling party. There was no chance of establishing justice there. As there was no democracy truths could not be spoken there. The government should not control legislature and ruling party had no right to shut up the mouths of opposition members.
Deputy General Secretary Duraimurugan and others also spoke .
Speaking at a huge public meeting in Tiruvanmiyur in Chennai on ‘Fate of Democracy in the Assembly’ on April 24, Kalaignar said he had been serving in TN Assembly continuously from 1957 for over 55 years without facing defeat in any election and also served as Chief Minister for five terms.
Referring to the earlier speakers describing how democracy in the Assembly was being given farewell by the present rulers, Kalaignar recalled an incident in the same House in 1957 during the rule of Kamarajar for people to understand the difference. During a debate on grants for department of Backward Classes welfare, he as opposition member raised a ‘point of order’ and pointed out that the names of backward classes and verbs in sentences referring to them were in singular where as the corresponding names and verbs of forward communities were in plural. The then Speaker U. Krishna Rao, a gentleman, permitted him to raise the issue. As Chief Minister Kamarajar asked the then Home Minister Kakkan who also held the portfolio of Backward classes welfare to explain the Minister admitted the mistake and undertook to rectify it. Now if such questions were raised in the House those who asked would only get suspension for 10 days.
Kalaignar referred to a lengthy list of names read out earlier how two yardsticks were used for ruling party men and opposition parties in the Assembly and double standards adopted for them by the police under this regime. The rulers were misusing the police for framing charges against cadre of opposition parties. Particularly they were targeting DMK and the party of brother Vijayakanth to suppress and destroy them. “In this government there is one justice for the opposition and another for ADMK men. The police is not acting on complaints against ruling party members”, he alleged and cited the case of Dr.Rani of Tiruchi, who complained to the police that a former minister Paranjothi married her as second wife took jewels from her and cheated her. The complaint file in December 2011 was not at all acted upon despite court orders. When the case came for hearing recently none from the police department appeared and the counsel for Rani had told the court that inspector Govindaraj went ro her house and threatened her and she complained about it on 18.12.2012 but no action was taken. On coming out of the court she had told reporters that even after 538 days the police had not yet filed charge sheet and for any danger to the lives of her and her children the ADMK MLA would be responsible.
Reports about this case was being published in dailies for the past one and a half year byt for some reason this was not known to the CM who did not mention about this in her lengthy reply to the debate on grants for police department. “She knows what would have happened if she had mentioned about it and hence she completely covered it up. I don’t know why this lady, who praises herself as a sage, having no attachment to anything, always fair and administer appropriate punishment to whomsoever committing mistakes, do not know the suffering of this woman Dr.Rani”, Kalaignar said. He also cited the case of missing person Gokul who was kidnapped on June3,2011 by a gang deputed by Minister Senthil Balaji who took over his ancestral property without any payment. After he complained about this in Karur court on January 5 his whereabouts were not known. The ‘sage’ lady did not want to get details about this case nor did she ask officials to probe it. “Should the ‘honest’ CM take action against her minister?”
Kalaignar also referred to an article in pro-ruling party ‘Junior Vikatan’ about law and order situation in the state becoming the place of execution. Citing several cases murder that took place in broad day light in the vicinity of police stations the weekly reported that even police officials conceded that such incidents had never happened so far in the state. Kalaignar said the mentality of the rulers seemed to be that non-ADMK persons should die or get punished. Former Minister Veerapandi Arumugam was a healthy man but the ADMK regime tortured him by repeatedly arresting and lodging in jails resulting in his untimely death.
He called upon the DMK cadre to rise up against the oppression of the regime and make it accountable for all its misdeeds.
Democracy in peril
DMK Treasurer and Legislative Party leader Thalapathi M.K.Stalin alleged that the legislature had been reduced to a forum to sing paens for the Chief Minster and democracy pushed into deep pit. Denying the ruling party’s charge that the DMK MLAs were disrupting the proceedings of the Assembly, he said that there were days when they sat through the day till the ministers completed their replies during the debate. “However there are ministers who deliberately level charges against the DMK and its leader just to please their leader. Against Assembly rules the ruling party members were speaking in praise of Jayalalitha for ten minutes to ask a single sentence question during Question Hour and also during Zero hour colossally wasting precious time to speak on the problems of people. When DMK members wanted to register their protest to wanton provocative remarks by the ministers and ADMK members, the Speaker denied them permission and evicted them, he said.
Disputing the claims made by Jayalalitha in the Assembly on law and order situation in the State, he referred to the crimes statistics on the website of State Crimes Records bureau which pointed a different picture. Sasikala’s husband M.Natarajan was arrested in six cases and lodged in prison for 82 days before coming out on bail. But no charge sheet had been filed against him so far. But for DMK men they register cases immediately and when they come out on bail new cases were foisted and arrested again, he said.
General Secretary Prof.K.Anbazhagan said that law of the land was being denigrated in the TN Assembly by converting it into a pace conducted according to the whims and fancies of ruling party. There was no chance of establishing justice there. As there was no democracy truths could not be spoken there. The government should not control legislature and ruling party had no right to shut up the mouths of opposition members.
Deputy General Secretary Duraimurugan and others also spoke .
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