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7 AIADMK leaders take on Karunanidhi and Moopanar for criticising Jaya

Seven senior functionaries of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazagham today mounted a counter-attack on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and Tamil Maanila Congress president G K Moopanar for alleging that the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government at the Centre was trying to rescue party chief J Jayalalitha from the corruption cases filed against her in special courts in Madras.

In a joint statement, they said by making the allegation, "the two leaders were trying to divert attention from their own crimes and seeking to use the judicial process to destroy Jayalalitha, their political nemesis".

The AIADMK leaders said Karunanidhi and Moopanar knew they could not fight Jayalalitha politically and so "they were seeking to prevent her from being politically active by foisting cases against her and harassing her supporters and officials to force them to give false evidence".

"Those whose hands are full of ill-gotten wealth and the blood of the poor are today talking about morality," the statement charged.

The signatories to the statement are party treasurer and former Union minister Sedapatti R Muthiah, deputy general secretaries Dr K Kalimuthu, K A Sengottian, V Karuppasamy Pandian, M Chinnasamy, headquarters secretary V Sathiamurthy and organising secretary E Madhusudhanan.

UNI

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