AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa has said that A.Raja, who had quit as Union Minister in the wake of 2G spectrum issue, was only a tool and the man behind him would also leave office soon.
In a statement here, she said if Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi was convinced that there was no scandal in spectrum allocation why was he not coming forward to suggest a probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee into the issue. “If there are no irregularities in the allocation why was the CBI officer who investigated the matter transferred,” she asked.
Reacting to Mr. Karunanidhi's remarks that Mr Raja had quit on the advice of DMK leadership and not because she demanded resignation, Ms. Jayalalithaa said if he had not resigned he would have been dropped from the Cabinet.
As for another argument of Mr. Karunanidhi that in the beginning she neither demanded a JPC nor the arrest of Mr. Raja, she said there was no need to make all these demands immediately. “We will ask one by one. Still there are a lot of demands,” she said.
She also rejected Chief Minister's poser on why she had not responded to CPI (M) State secretary G. Ramakrishnan who had taken exception to her offer of support to Congress, Ms. Jayalalithaa said Mr. Ramakrishnan himself had clarified that the Chief Minister had no locus standi to talk about it.
