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Narayanasamy, a senior Congress leader, also said his party would soon move the National Human Rights Commission and resort to legal steps for action against police personnel who lathicharged retrenched government employees near the Chief Minister's residence here on February 2. Alleging poor financial management by the government, he said though Rs 2,350 crore should have been collected from its own resources, the government had mobilised only Rs 1,670 crore in the 2011-2012 fiscal. Narayanasamy said the Chief Minister, instead of realising Rs 800 crore arrears this year and Rs 475 crores from the previous year from power consumers and electricity tariff and from merchants under commercial taxes, was spreading "false information" that the Centre was not releasing funds. He also charged Rangasamy with failing to draw the Centre's attention to the predicament of ryots in water starved Karaikal region, where over 4,000 hectares of the 7,000 hectares under cultivation had been affected, he said. Had he done so, the three member Central team which visited the Cauvery Delta districts in Tamil Nadu to assess the crop condition would have visited Karaikal, he said.