AIADMK workers stage protest against Karunanidhi

Agitated All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party workers on Sunday staged a protest here against Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief M Karunanidhi.

Protestors were seen using their slippers to kick a false effigy of DMK chief made with hay and bamboo sticks in order to vent their ire.

AIADMK cadres have been protesting since their party supremo J. Jayalalithaa was sentenced to four years in jail and asked to pay a fine Rs.100 crores in connection with a disproportionate assets case by a Bangalore Special Court on Saturday.

Jayalalithaa was declared guilty of amassing wealth disproportionate to known sources of her income under Sections 109 and 120 (b) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

Her three other co-accused-one time close aide Sasikala Natarajan, her niece Ilavarasi and her nephew and disowned foster son Sudhakaran were asked to pay fines of Rs.10 crores each and sentenced to serve jail terms of six months each.

The verdict was delivered at a makeshift court in the Parappana Agrahara prison complex in the presence of Jayalalithaa and the other accused.