AIADMK chief sets up nine-member panel

CHENNAI: The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) has constituted a nine-member committee to elicit people's views on the Tata Group's proposed titanium-dioxide project at Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts.

The committee, including senior party leaders O Panneerselvam, K A Sengottaiyan and P H Pandiyan, would visit the proposed site of the project and get the peoples' views, AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa said in a statement here.

Accusing the DMK Government of being "anti-people," she said Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had failed to deliver his promise on free distribution of land to the poor. Instead, 'he was involved in confiscating land from farmers', she charged.

The Congress, PMK, Left parties and Vijayakanth's DMDK had already constituted respective committees for getting the peoples' views on the project.