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Tamil Nadu
By Our Special Correspondent
Ruling out approaching courts for enlarging the DMK MLAs on bail, the party president, M. Karunanidhi, today said they did not violate any law when they entered the college on Tuesday. ``If that is a violation, then why not arrest a 102-year-old woman and others who entered the campus?'' Asked whether the arrests were an act of political vendetta, he countered ``what else can this be?'' the DMK would talk to other parties to decide on the next course of action, he said. Mr. Karunanidhi was of the firm view that the AIADMK Government should not last, but the DMK would not approach the Centre to achieve this objective. The PMK founder, S. Ramadoss, asked why the DMK MLAs were singled out for arrest when scores of leaders from teachers organisations and various walks of life had entered the QMC campus to express their solidarity with the students agitating a government proposal to demolish the institution. It was ironical that on a day the police demands were taken up in the Assembly and when members expressed their desire that the police function apolitically, such a blatant misuse of the force took place. The AICC secretary, G.K. Vasan, said the entire sequence of events, starting from the Chief Minister's sweeping allegations against Opposition leaders, especially against Mr. Karunanidhi in the "actor Rajkumar kidnap episode", was against all canons of decency. Ms. Jayalalithaa's remarks in the legislature seemed to suggest that she had irrefutable evidence to back her allegations of Mr. Karunanidhi's role in the episode. Mr. Stalin was arrested only for supporting the QMC students. All these only showed that she had a personal and vindictive agenda against the Opposition, and it did not augur well for the public life. The TNCC working president, E.V.K.S. Elangovan, said Mr. Stalin's arrest was a distinct "dark spot" of the regime. The singular charge that Mr. Stalin had extended support to the QMC students was the height of the Chief Minister's ego. It was time the AIADMK regime was brought to an end.The CPI (M) State secretary, N. Varadarajan, condemning the arrest of the DMK MLAs, as also of other Opposition legislators, urged the Government to release all of them immediately. The CPI's State secretary, R. Nallakkanu, condemned the "anti-democratic" attitude of the State Government and decried the "denial of the rights" of the legislators.
Vaiko plea
Demanding the immediate release of the jailed leaders, the MDMK general secretary, Vaiko, said Mr. Stalin had merely conveyed his party's moral support to the students' struggle and hence, it was absurd to say he was in the QMC to incite them. It was the police who behaved like thieves, scaling the gates of Mr. Stalin's Velachery residence here last night. The Puthiya Tamizhagam president, K. Krishnasamy, said it was the responsibility of a political party to extend moral support to agitations against a Government. The Makkal Tamizh Desam leader, S. Kannappan, said no one was able to raise people's issues even on a democratic forum.
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