Ramamurthy Threatens Statewide Agitation

Petroleum minister and Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress (TRC) president Vazhapadi K Ramamurthy yesterday threatened to launch a state-wide agitation if his demand for dismissal of the DMK government in Tamil Nadu was not conceded within a reasonable time.

Ramamurthy told reporters after an executive committee meeting of TRC, an ally of the AIADMK, that DMK had supported the LTTE in the state in 1989, which had led to the dismissal of DMK ministry then. A similar situation had developed in the state now as fundamentalist activities were on the rise, he alleged.

The Centre, he stated, should not keep watching the situation as if it was a tamasha.

 

On the Tamil Nadu Chief Ministers M Karunanidhi statement of that the state would hand over the investigation into the Coimbatore blasts to the CBI if the Gokulakrishnan Commission probing the bomb blasts and the communal clashes in the textile city in November-December 1997 recommended it, Ramamurthy said one of the arrested in connection with blasts had confessed that there were five human bombs present at Coimbatore on February 14, when

BJP leader L K Advani came there for electioneering. The Chief Ministers statement in this regard was unacceptable to the TRC, he charged.