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BJP justifies demand for transfer of Kanchi case
[ Newindpress ]

Friday April 29 2005 00:00 IST
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said that the slapping of a ganja-related case on the Kanchi Sankara Mutt manager Sundaresa Iyer had vindicated the party’s demand for transfer of all Sankaracharya-related cases to outside Tamil Nadu.

‘‘The Tamil Nadu Government and the police do not seem to be interested in solving the Sankararaman murder case, but seems to be intent on foisting more and more cases on the Sankara Mutt,’’ BJP state president CP Radhakrishnan told reporters here.

Describing the new case against Iyer as yet another instance of vindictive action of the AIADMK Government, Radhakrishnan said that the State Government had an unenviable record of foisting ganja cases.

Radhakrishnan also voiced his party’s demand for the resignation of Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad not only for the charges framed against him in the Patna court, but also for fomenting Centre-State clash over the alleged attack on him at Baroda recently.

Asked whether the BJP would use the same yardstick to demand the resignation of TN Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for the disproportionate wealth case now being tried in a Bangalore court, Radhkrishnan said the two cases could not be compared.

‘‘We do not want to create any unnecessary political confusion in the state by demanding Jayalalithaa’s resignation, especially as the government has only one more year to go. However, if Jayalalithaa resigned on moral grounds we will welcome it,’’ he said.

Reiterating that the BJP would create a third political force in the state, he said that if the Dalit Panthers of India (DPI) led by Thol Thirumavalavan, which is contesting the two Assembly by-elections alone, sought the BJP’s support, the party’s state executive meet on May 1 would consider it. The state executive would also decide on the direction the party would give its supporters for the by-elections.


 

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