Panicked over the soon-to-be delivered verdict in the disproportionate assets case against her, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha has unnecessarily attacked him and dragged him into altercation on Palar issue, said DMK President Kalaignar adding she has to face consequences for her acts like those who eat salt had to necessarily drink water.
Reacting to a lengthy statement of her on June 23 on the issue, Kalaignar is a statement on June 23 said,
“Relating to the speech of new Seemandra Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Palar river water issue, I had issued a statement on June 21 explaining him. On the same Palar issue, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha has issued a lengthy statement today (June 23). In that statement, as usual she had unnecessarily criticised the statement issued by me. Her statement is like the saying in villages dragging others into altercation. My statement was in reply to the view expressed by Andhra Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. In that now even a word criticising Jayalalitha or ADMK regime in Tamil Nadu has been mentioned. But the Chief Minister, in her statement, purposely drag for unnecessary altercation. In the very first sentence of her statement, she has said, “DMK President Karunanidhi is an expert in the art of extending hand for relationship while in power and acting like raising voice for rights when not in power”.
Do not people of Tamil Nadu know who is an expert in ‘acting’? The principle of the DMK is to “Extend hand for relationship and raising voice for rights” whether in power or not. If I issue a statement countering the view expressed by Andhra Chief Minister at a function on constructing a dam in Palar by recalling what he had already said, is it befitting for one in the post of Chief Minister to immediately state that I am an expert in acting, that I conceal a full pumpkin in rice, that I portray myself as having made a great accomplishment, and that I have issued a statement only to show that I am still in politics? Is it civillised for a Chief Minister? Will not at all Jayalalitha stop issuing such contradictory statements?
Should I issue statement to show that I am still in politics? Whether in power or not, the dailies in Tamil Nadu are only criticising about me every day! When she was not in power, the same Jayalalitha issued statements every day; she conducted agitations daily in some place or the other; were they all only for showing in light that she was in politics?
As usual Jayalalitha, in her statement on Palar, has accused that I did not take any action on Cauvery issue and Mullaiperiyar issue. Moreover, in her statement Jayalalitha had claimed that when the Andhra government raised the issue of constructing check dam after 2006, she as the Leader of the Opposition, had urged the DMK government to take steps to prevent it. When the DMK was in power, Jayalalitha could issue statement for taking action for the same Palar issue; but when the ADMK is in power, is it a sin for me to issue statement for Palar issue? “If mother-in-law breaks it is mud pot; but if daughter-in-law breaks is it golden pot?”
I request that people of Tamil Nadu, journalists and the educated to please think over what is fair in this.
Jayalalitha in today’s statement has claimed that immediately after the report on Seemandra Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu speaking about constructing dam in Palar appeared in dailies, she had consultations with higher officials and the Chief Secretary on June 20 wrote a letter on this to the Centre. Was the news of her speaking to officials or writing to the Centre published in any daily? But for the same issue only the statement issued by me was published in dailies. Only after the release of that statement, the Chief Minister has hastily issued a lengthy statement. Even on Hindi language issue, after I issued statement last week and the Centre also took action without knowing the development Chief Minister Jayalalitha issued statement. Having acted like this like ‘getting hold of the tail leaving the rope’, is it fair to issue statement accusing me?
Jayalalitha also self congratulated in her statement that only because of her the right of Tamil Nadu in Cauvery issue was established. The Cauvery river Management Board as mandated by the tribunal is yet to be constituted. In the last three years water has not come in Cauvery. Kuruvai cultivation was not taken up. Today is June 23; Mettur dam, which had to be opened on June 12, is still not opened. Despite the plea from various quarters for convening all-party meeting it has not been paid heed. Due to power cut people could not move around. Law and order situation is precarious. When it so, is there need for statement and self-congratulation in it?
Just because the verdict in the disproportionate assets case in Bangalore is to be delivered soon, there is no use in unnecessarily issue statement taking on me. If salt is consumed necessarily water has to be drunk!”
Reacting to a lengthy statement of her on June 23 on the issue, Kalaignar is a statement on June 23 said,
“Relating to the speech of new Seemandra Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Palar river water issue, I had issued a statement on June 21 explaining him. On the same Palar issue, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha has issued a lengthy statement today (June 23). In that statement, as usual she had unnecessarily criticised the statement issued by me. Her statement is like the saying in villages dragging others into altercation. My statement was in reply to the view expressed by Andhra Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. In that now even a word criticising Jayalalitha or ADMK regime in Tamil Nadu has been mentioned. But the Chief Minister, in her statement, purposely drag for unnecessary altercation. In the very first sentence of her statement, she has said, “DMK President Karunanidhi is an expert in the art of extending hand for relationship while in power and acting like raising voice for rights when not in power”.
Do not people of Tamil Nadu know who is an expert in ‘acting’? The principle of the DMK is to “Extend hand for relationship and raising voice for rights” whether in power or not. If I issue a statement countering the view expressed by Andhra Chief Minister at a function on constructing a dam in Palar by recalling what he had already said, is it befitting for one in the post of Chief Minister to immediately state that I am an expert in acting, that I conceal a full pumpkin in rice, that I portray myself as having made a great accomplishment, and that I have issued a statement only to show that I am still in politics? Is it civillised for a Chief Minister? Will not at all Jayalalitha stop issuing such contradictory statements?
Should I issue statement to show that I am still in politics? Whether in power or not, the dailies in Tamil Nadu are only criticising about me every day! When she was not in power, the same Jayalalitha issued statements every day; she conducted agitations daily in some place or the other; were they all only for showing in light that she was in politics?
As usual Jayalalitha, in her statement on Palar, has accused that I did not take any action on Cauvery issue and Mullaiperiyar issue. Moreover, in her statement Jayalalitha had claimed that when the Andhra government raised the issue of constructing check dam after 2006, she as the Leader of the Opposition, had urged the DMK government to take steps to prevent it. When the DMK was in power, Jayalalitha could issue statement for taking action for the same Palar issue; but when the ADMK is in power, is it a sin for me to issue statement for Palar issue? “If mother-in-law breaks it is mud pot; but if daughter-in-law breaks is it golden pot?”
I request that people of Tamil Nadu, journalists and the educated to please think over what is fair in this.
Jayalalitha in today’s statement has claimed that immediately after the report on Seemandra Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu speaking about constructing dam in Palar appeared in dailies, she had consultations with higher officials and the Chief Secretary on June 20 wrote a letter on this to the Centre. Was the news of her speaking to officials or writing to the Centre published in any daily? But for the same issue only the statement issued by me was published in dailies. Only after the release of that statement, the Chief Minister has hastily issued a lengthy statement. Even on Hindi language issue, after I issued statement last week and the Centre also took action without knowing the development Chief Minister Jayalalitha issued statement. Having acted like this like ‘getting hold of the tail leaving the rope’, is it fair to issue statement accusing me?
Jayalalitha also self congratulated in her statement that only because of her the right of Tamil Nadu in Cauvery issue was established. The Cauvery river Management Board as mandated by the tribunal is yet to be constituted. In the last three years water has not come in Cauvery. Kuruvai cultivation was not taken up. Today is June 23; Mettur dam, which had to be opened on June 12, is still not opened. Despite the plea from various quarters for convening all-party meeting it has not been paid heed. Due to power cut people could not move around. Law and order situation is precarious. When it so, is there need for statement and self-congratulation in it?
Just because the verdict in the disproportionate assets case in Bangalore is to be delivered soon, there is no use in unnecessarily issue statement taking on me. If salt is consumed necessarily water has to be drunk!”
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