[1]Even as the Jayalalithaa government continued to slap more cases and invoke the Goondas’ Act against a few prominent DMK functionaries, DMK leader M.K. Stalin on Friday said the ‘false’ land-grab cases being ‘foisted out of vendetta’ cannot intimidate his cadres and break the DMK morale.
Speaking to reporters after meeting former ministers Veerapandi Arumugam and NKKP Raja, besides party MLA J Anbazhagan and some other DMK members lodged in the Coimbatore central jail, Mr Stalin said his party would face the ‘false cases’ effectively in the courts.
The police were not entertaining similar complaints against AIADMK ministers and functionaries, he alleged.
Rattled by this crackdown on his party functionaries, DMK president M. Karunanidhi has announced he would address a ‘protest rally’ at Tiruvarur on Saturday.
The party has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission in New Delhi seeking intervention in the ‘midnight arrests’ of ‘respectable’ DMK functionaries.
Meanwhile, Tiruvarur DMK secretary Poondi Kalaivanan and Madurai corporation east zone chairman V. K. Gurusamy have joined the list of DMK men detained under the Goondas’ Act following land-grabbing complaints against them.
The AIADMK government has formed special cells in all the district crime bureaus to deal with the flood of land-grab cases pouring in, mostly against DMK functionaries.
Chief minister J Jaya-lalithaa brushed aside the ‘vendetta’ charge and said the police was only acting on ‘genuine’ complaints from ‘victims’ and there was nothing political in it.
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