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CHENNAICHENNAI, AUG. 24.AUG. 24. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) will discuss with other political parties the need to organise a movement to condemn the Bharatiya Janata Party repeatedly stalling Parliament proceedings. The DMK president, M. Karunanidhi, today told presspersons that the BJP was acting like a bad loser and, under one pretext or the other, was not allowing Parliament to function. There was no connection between the resignation of a Chief Minister and its functioning. There were orders from the presiding officers of both Houses that such issues should not be raised in Parliament. Suddenly the BJP disrupted the functioning of the Lok Sabha, raising an issue concerning a State, he said, referring to the resignation of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti. By disrupting the proceedings, it was not allowing MPs to raise the issues concerning people, he said and asked whether the House should not function merely because the BJP had lost the elections. Only a conviction in court should unseat a person; not the filing of first information report (FIR) or framing of charges. ``I have made it clear in the Salem conference. Anybody can get an FIR registered against anyone else. A charge sheet also can be prepared... it is easy to do this. This will become a way of settling scores... But till such time that the accused is punished it cannot be said they are guilty,'' Mr. Karunanidhi said. In Tamil Nadu, it was because the AIADMK general secretary, Jayalalithaa, was convicted that she could not contest the Assembly elections. After the Supreme Court held that she could not continue as Chief Minister (after the May 2001 election victory) because she was convicted, she had to step down. In view of the current debate, Mr. Karunanidhi said, the DMK would send its observations to political parties.
PMK, DPI ties
Commenting on the Pattali Makkal Katchi founder, S. Ramadoss, and the Dalit Panthers of India general secretary, Thol. Tirumavalavan, sharing a stage, he said any party could be friendly with any other. Being part of the Democratic Progressive Alliance, the allies had some responsibilities. Beyond that there was no bar on the parties in the Alliance establishing contact with others or conducting their campaigns. Just as the DMK had conducted the Salem conference, others too — for instance the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) — were organising separate conferences. On Ms. Jayalalithaa writing to all Chief Ministers against the repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, Mr. Karunanidhi said she was doing so as she had taken action against people invoking the legislation. He described the Salem conference as a ``complete success.'' Asked how the AIADMK regime would collapse on its own (as he had described at the conference), Mr. Karunanidhi said clouds sometimes hid the sun and the moon. But they eventually dissipated, he said.
`Jayalalithaa has
no right to rule'
CHENNAICHENNAI, AUG. 24.AUG. 24. The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president, G.K. Vasan, today questioned the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa's right to govern the State when all sections were ``disillusioned with her administration.'' In a statement here, he said incidents in the Madras High Court, where lawyers resorted to a road roko and a blackflag demonstration, were causing concern. Such activities by lawyers would make litigants lose faith in the judiciary. The Supreme Court's directive to the State Government to hand over the files in the disproportionate wealth case against the Chief Minister to the special court in Karnataka exposed the State Government's attitude to the judiciary, Mr. Vasan said. Charging the Government with acting against the interests of students, government employees, farmers and weavers, he said the Chief Minister had no right to rule the State.
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