AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's “hasty denial” of the letter from industrialist Ratan Tata, praising the then Union Telecom Minister A. Raja, had raised a new set of questions.
“It was only when I raised certain pertinent questions that he has come out with a denial. Why did Mr. Karunanidhi not bother to deny the letter when it was first reported in the media? And why have Ratan Tata, the purported writer of the letter, and Niira Radia, the person who was supposed to have delivered it, not got into the denial mode,” she asked in a statement.
Ms. Jayalalithaa said it was hand-written by Mr. Tata himself on the Bombay House stationery of the Tatas, and Tata Tele Services vice-president Rajeev Narayan had officially confirmed the letter.
She said Mr. Narayan had even justified its contents saying that it was “written at the time of a public controversy created by vested interest groups within the industry, motivated by policy announcements made by the then Minister, A. Raja.”
