M Karunanidhi seeks answers from Tamil Nadu CM to queries
He said the Chief Minister had not answered his question if she wrote such letters to former Prime Ministers or not.
Chennai: DMK chief M. Karunanidhi on Friday said Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa who demanded answers for a few questions to him had not come out with any explanation for the questions put forward by him on the Katchatheevu issue, showing that she had no answers for them.
Citing his earlier statement on the issue, Karunanidhi alleged that the AIADMK leader, in two letters written to former Prime Ministers P.V. Narasimha Rao and A.B. Vajpayee had said the islet was ceded to Sri Lanka for better ties and suggested that the island nation's sovereignty over Katchatheevu could be accepted.
He said the Chief Minister had not answered his question if she
wrote such letters to former Prime Ministers or not. “Instead of answering my questions, the Chief Minister, is asking me to come to a place in the Assembly where I cannot get in to answer her questions,” he said.
Reacting to Jayalalithaa's poser that who is the DMK leader, Karunanidhi said, “My party members know that who is their party leader and who is the leader of Opposition”.
The DMK chief reiterated that he was not aware of signing of the Katchatheevu pact and two clauses were added to the pact due to his insistence only after the signing of the deal. The DMK had strongly registered its opposition of ceding of the islet, he said and cited his speeches in 1974 asserting that the islet was part of Tamil Nadu.