Jayalalithaa should resign: Swamy

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, SEPT. 1. The Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha, should resign to ``preserve whatever residual self-respect'' is left in her, following the Supreme Court stay in the TANSI case, the Janata Party president, Dr. Subramanian Swamy, said today.

Addressing presspersons here, he demanded that the Returning Officers (ROs) of the four Assembly constituencies where Ms. Jayalalithaa filed her nomination in the last elections, initiate legal action against her. For, election rules prohibited any contestant from filing nominations from more than two constituencies.

``The Returning Officers are the persons who have to file the complaint to set the law in motion. If they do not do so by October 1, then I shall file a Public Interest Litigation case in the Madras High Court,'' Dr. Swamy said. The PIL would seek a direction to the ROs to prosecute Ms. Jayalalithaa.

Asked when he planned to meet the DMK president, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, Dr.Swamy said first the committee (National Committee to Save Democracy in Tamil Nadu) needed to be set up. ``Then I will meet him,'' he said. Also, the problem was the DMK was part of the NDA.

Dr. Swamy said Mr. G.K. Vasan (son of the late G.K. Moopanar), was capable of leading the TMC, but pointed out that the future of the TMC lay in having an identity distinct from that of the Congress.

A statue of Muthuramalinga Thevar would shortly be installed in the Parliament complex after finalising the locations, he said. The ``narrow-minded, obstructionist attitude'' of the State Government had prevented the Centre from acting on his proposal to rename the Madurai airport after Muthuramalinga Thevar, he said.

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