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CHENNAI, OCT. 30. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa's move to file extracts from her telephonic conversation with the Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, over the transfer of the Governor, P.S. Ramamohan Rao, in the application before the Supreme Court on Friday is threatening to snowball into a major political controversy.

Serious questions about the propriety of a Chief Minister releasing the excerpts of an official and confidential conversation with a Union Minister, and that too over the appointment of a constitutional functionary, have been raised both here and in New Delhi. Though Ms. Jayalalithaa has defended her action on the grounds that she could not "suppress information" from the Supreme Court, as it was the cause of action, the Opposition parties seemed determined to make an issue of what they call a "breach of privilege and breach of the oath of secrecy."

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