Dismiss DMK government, Jaya asks Centre

CHENNAI: Condemning the attacks on Sangh Parivar offices and its leaders in Tamil Nadu allegedly by DMK men, AIADMK supremo Jayalithaa on Sunday said that the law and order situation in the state had deteriorated and asked the Centre to dismiss the Karunanidhi Government.

"Karunanidhi, as a Chief Minister, was duty bound to maintain law and order but today's incidents have shown that he had not done so", she said in a statement here.

His provocative statements against Lord Ram was bound to draw criticism from others and it should be met in a democratic way and not through violence.

She charged the DMK Treasurer Arcot N Veerasamy with inciting violence through his statement on Saturday.

Expressing doubts that some of the senior DMK ministers and leaders had lead the attacks, Jayalalithaa charged that the events happened in connivance with the police.

Recollecting the Madurai Dinakaran office episode few months back, where the news paper office run by the Maran brothers was set on fire allegedly by DMK leader and Karunanidhi's son M K Azhagiri, she said that law and order situation in the state had deteriorated.