Refuting the claims of Chief Minister Jayalalitha on law and order situation in the State, DMK Treasurer Thalapathi M.K.Stalin said that on the other hand Tamil Nadu stood first in south India and second at the national level in deterioration of law and order.
He was addressing a public meeting in Chennai on August 6 to explain the points on the debate of the party on the demand for grants for Police department in the Assembly, which its legislators could not place before the House because of their suspension for the entire session.
He said the party had to place its points of view on the subject before the forum of the people as it could not be placed in the Assembly. The people were very well aware of the perils of democracy in the Assembly under the ADMK regime and how the legislature had been tuned to autocracy. Under Jayalalitha regime people’s grievances could not be voiced in the Assembly.
The Speaker of the House was expected to be nonpartisan and neutral but the present incumbent was a black mark in the history of presiding officers of legislatures. If permission was refused to place the issues of people, we have people’s forum. Chief Minister Jayalalitha always arrived at the House at about 11 am or 12 noon. The legislative practice was the members raising from their seats and paying respects when the Speaker arrived at the House. Only to avoid this Jayalalitha was arriving late.
Question Hour was very important feature of the legislature when the issues and grievances of the people were raised and the response of the government was obtained. Usually Jayalalitha was not present in the House when this hour was taken up. The ruling party members and ministers were speaking in a degrading manner about 91-year old and five- time Chief Minister Kalaignar and when the DMK members sought to explain they were not permitted. When they staged protest walkouts the minister called them as ‘odukaaligal’. For having briefed this to reporters case had been filed against him and the court has sent summon to him.
Stating that he was ready to go to the court and face the case filed by this government, Stalin said after all he has not received summon from Bangalore special court in disproportionate assets case or from the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Income tax case. He would not seek repeated adjournments like Jayalalitha, he asserted.
Whenever Jayalalitha came to power in the State, looting of sand became the order of the day. There was an alliance between the regime and sand mafia. There were reports that the daily collection of commission in sand quarries was to the order of Rs. One and a half crore, of which the share of panchayat president was Rs. one lakh, vice-president Rs. 50,000, ward member Rs. 20,000, and important persons Rs.20,000 to Rs. 70,000. Revenue officers and police personnel who tried to prevent these illegal actions were mowed down and killed, reports now and then indicated.
In this regard, Stalin cited various strictures passed by courts and the the Madras High Court Bench in Madurai on the criticising the State government for using machineries to quarry sand from riverbeds “perhaps under pressure from lorry owners” and for not disclosing the correct quantity of sand quarried from each location. Passing orders in a batch of writ petitions related to sand mining in Cauvery and Kollidam river beds, Justices V. Ramasubramanian and V.M. Velumani said: “The actual statistics (with respect to quantity of sand mined) appear to have been buried deep into the very same sand,” Stalin quoted reports. He said had he been permitted he would have raised this issue in the Assembly on the day.
Disputing the claim of Jayalalitha in the Assembly on the day that Tamil Nadu was remaining as a ‘garden of peace’, Stalin said that there were 3,525 murders, 1,350 thefts and 1,023 wayside robberies in TN. Cases were not registered in police stations in order to cover up the deterioration of law and order situation, in which Tamil Nadu under Jayalalitha regime stood second in India after Uttar Pradesh and first in South India. The culprits in the murders of Pottu Suresh in Madurai and K.N.Nehru’s younger brother Ramajeyam in Tiruchi had not been nabbed so far, he said adding there were number of such pending cases in the State.
61 persons had been killed and hundreds injured severely in the Maulivakkam building collapse, he said alleging that the CMDA and the local body had not given proper approval and all conditions and rules and regulations had been floated for giving approval for this building. He has filed a petition in the Madras High Court which had been taken up by the first bench of the Chief Justice which had directed the Tamil Nadu government to submit a status report on the building collapse incident at Moulivakkam in Chennai on June 28 which claimed 61 lives
The report shall contain details such as the extent of excavation into the 11-storey structure, which collapsed due to poor quality of design and construction materials. Stalin expressed confidence in the guilty in this case being caught.
Braving heavy rain thousands of people attended the meeting presided over by Triplicane area DMK secretary ARPM Kamaraj. J.Anbalagan MLA, A.Rahmankhan, former Chennai Mayor M.Subramanian and others also spoke.
He was addressing a public meeting in Chennai on August 6 to explain the points on the debate of the party on the demand for grants for Police department in the Assembly, which its legislators could not place before the House because of their suspension for the entire session.
He said the party had to place its points of view on the subject before the forum of the people as it could not be placed in the Assembly. The people were very well aware of the perils of democracy in the Assembly under the ADMK regime and how the legislature had been tuned to autocracy. Under Jayalalitha regime people’s grievances could not be voiced in the Assembly.
The Speaker of the House was expected to be nonpartisan and neutral but the present incumbent was a black mark in the history of presiding officers of legislatures. If permission was refused to place the issues of people, we have people’s forum. Chief Minister Jayalalitha always arrived at the House at about 11 am or 12 noon. The legislative practice was the members raising from their seats and paying respects when the Speaker arrived at the House. Only to avoid this Jayalalitha was arriving late.
Question Hour was very important feature of the legislature when the issues and grievances of the people were raised and the response of the government was obtained. Usually Jayalalitha was not present in the House when this hour was taken up. The ruling party members and ministers were speaking in a degrading manner about 91-year old and five- time Chief Minister Kalaignar and when the DMK members sought to explain they were not permitted. When they staged protest walkouts the minister called them as ‘odukaaligal’. For having briefed this to reporters case had been filed against him and the court has sent summon to him.
Stating that he was ready to go to the court and face the case filed by this government, Stalin said after all he has not received summon from Bangalore special court in disproportionate assets case or from the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Income tax case. He would not seek repeated adjournments like Jayalalitha, he asserted.
Whenever Jayalalitha came to power in the State, looting of sand became the order of the day. There was an alliance between the regime and sand mafia. There were reports that the daily collection of commission in sand quarries was to the order of Rs. One and a half crore, of which the share of panchayat president was Rs. one lakh, vice-president Rs. 50,000, ward member Rs. 20,000, and important persons Rs.20,000 to Rs. 70,000. Revenue officers and police personnel who tried to prevent these illegal actions were mowed down and killed, reports now and then indicated.
In this regard, Stalin cited various strictures passed by courts and the the Madras High Court Bench in Madurai on the criticising the State government for using machineries to quarry sand from riverbeds “perhaps under pressure from lorry owners” and for not disclosing the correct quantity of sand quarried from each location. Passing orders in a batch of writ petitions related to sand mining in Cauvery and Kollidam river beds, Justices V. Ramasubramanian and V.M. Velumani said: “The actual statistics (with respect to quantity of sand mined) appear to have been buried deep into the very same sand,” Stalin quoted reports. He said had he been permitted he would have raised this issue in the Assembly on the day.
Disputing the claim of Jayalalitha in the Assembly on the day that Tamil Nadu was remaining as a ‘garden of peace’, Stalin said that there were 3,525 murders, 1,350 thefts and 1,023 wayside robberies in TN. Cases were not registered in police stations in order to cover up the deterioration of law and order situation, in which Tamil Nadu under Jayalalitha regime stood second in India after Uttar Pradesh and first in South India. The culprits in the murders of Pottu Suresh in Madurai and K.N.Nehru’s younger brother Ramajeyam in Tiruchi had not been nabbed so far, he said adding there were number of such pending cases in the State.
61 persons had been killed and hundreds injured severely in the Maulivakkam building collapse, he said alleging that the CMDA and the local body had not given proper approval and all conditions and rules and regulations had been floated for giving approval for this building. He has filed a petition in the Madras High Court which had been taken up by the first bench of the Chief Justice which had directed the Tamil Nadu government to submit a status report on the building collapse incident at Moulivakkam in Chennai on June 28 which claimed 61 lives
The report shall contain details such as the extent of excavation into the 11-storey structure, which collapsed due to poor quality of design and construction materials. Stalin expressed confidence in the guilty in this case being caught.
Braving heavy rain thousands of people attended the meeting presided over by Triplicane area DMK secretary ARPM Kamaraj. J.Anbalagan MLA, A.Rahmankhan, former Chennai Mayor M.Subramanian and others also spoke.
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