EC issues notices to Jaya, Vijayakanth
The Election Commission has issued notices to AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa and her ally DMDK chief actor Vijayakanth for their alleged personal attacks against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and his family members in their campaign speeches, officials said today.
In the notice, the EC has asked both the leaders to furnish their replies by 5 PM today, they said.
The EC's notice came in the wake of a recent compliant by members of DMK poll committee who alleged that both Jayalalithaa and Vijayakanth were making personal attacks targeting Karunanidhi and his family members in their poll campaign for the April 13 Assembly elections.
With just six days to go for polls, the campaign has reached feverish pitch with both DMK and AIADMK-led fronts playing for high stakes in one of the fierce poll battles ever.
Meanwhile, stepping up her attack against the ruling DMK, AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa alleged that law and order in Tamil Nadu has deteriorated due to the "misrule" by the Karunanidhi government. “It is a visible truth that law and order in Tamil Nadu has deteriorated,” she said, blaming the Karunanidhi government for the
.
Jayalalithaa was addressing an election meeting in Chitode village, 12 km from here. She alleged that several ministers in the Karunanidhi cabinet were involved in a number of criminal activities. “But their leader failed to take action against them,” she said. Lambasting Karun
anidhi, she said there was no industrial or agricultural development in the last five years. —PTI
Post new comment