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Veto Anna varsity land alienation: Durai Murugan

By A.V. Ragunathan

VILLUPURAM Sept. 20. The principal DMK headquarters secretary, Durai Murugan, today appealed to the Governor, Ramamohan Rao, not to accord permission for the government proposal to set up a new Secretariat on the Anna University premises in Chennai.

Even if the Syndicate gave the green signal for alienating the university land, it was the bounden duty of the Chancellor to protect the interests of the university, by vetoing the proposal, Mr. Durai Murugan said in his inaugural speech at the Villupuram party conference here.

The AIADMK Government, which had all along been putting on hold many welfare programmes launched by the DMK rule on the plea of funds constraint, was now ready to spend crores on the proposed Secretariat project, unmindful of the fact that it would result in ``space constraints", he said.

Mr. Durai Murugan also said the Governor had given his approval for the Tamil Nadu Essential Services Maintenance ordinance, which was now being invoked by the Government to ``harass and penalise government employees".

Referring to the Taj scam, Mr. Durai Murugan said that in the case of Mayawati, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, a judgment would be delivered within five months, simply because she belonged to a Sudra or Harijan community. But in certain cases, there seemed to be no such time limit (making an oblique reference to the cases involving the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa). This made him appeal to Brahma, creator, why there should be such discrimination.

However, the court strictures in the Dharmapuri bus burning case and the conditional bail granted to Gopal, editor, Nakkheeran, in a POTA case, instilled hopes in the people that justice had not died in Tamil Nadu, said Mr. Durai Murugan.

The former Minister, K. Ponmudi, said the Villupuram conference was being held at a critical period when Ms. Jayalalithaa's AIADMK was transforming itself into a ``counter Dravidian movement", throwing to the winds the fundamental principles which were dear to the real Dravidian movement.

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