Jayalalithaa accuses TN govt of political vendetta

CHENNAI: AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa on Sunday alleged that the Tamil Nadu government had sent a notice to her party asking it to demolish the AIADMK headquarters office here.

Describing the move as political vendetta, Jayalalithaa said in a statement here that Chief Minister M Karunanidhi should realise that he was enjoying power "only on a temporary basis".

"Power has gone to his head and that is why he is acting in such a manner," she said.

When she and her mentor M G Ramachandran were the Chief Ministers of the state, they did not even think of asking the DMK to demolish Anna Arivalayam, the DMK headquarters here, she said.

But Karunanidhi had asked her party to demolish the headquarters without realising that it was a fort of AIADMK men who had sacrificed a lot to the party.

To end the "evil designs" of Karunanidhi, I have taken an oath to "wipe the DMK from the political map of the state," Jayalalithaa said.