Launching a no-holds-barred attack on Union minister and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's son M K Alagiri, AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa on Monday accused him of running a parallel government in the state, with Madurai as its centre.
"There are two governments in Tamil Nadu. One in Chennai headed by M Karunanidhi as Chief Minister and his son M K Stalin as Deputy Chief Minister. The other for south Tamil Nadu with Alagiri as chief minister," she told a massive rally in Madurai, considered Alagiri's bastion.
Addressing the keenly watched rally in the backdrop of AIADMK's claim that Jayalalithaa had received a series of threats to her life if she stepped into Madurai, she said she would not be cowed down by such intimidating tactics.
"Is Madurai Alagiri's ancestral property? I am not going to be cowed down by these threats. Issuing repeated threats only proves someone is afraid of us," she said after she arrived here in a bullet proof vehicle, with nearly 1,000 AIADMK men trained in martial arts and calling themselves 'black cats' throwing a security ring around her.
Text: PTI
Image: AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa shows a victory sign to her supporters during a rally in Madurai on Monday, October 18, 2010. (Photographs copyright PTI)
"There are two governments in Tamil Nadu. One in Chennai headed by M Karunanidhi as Chief Minister and his son M K Stalin as Deputy Chief Minister. The other for south Tamil Nadu with Alagiri as chief minister," she told a massive rally in Madurai, considered Alagiri's bastion.
Addressing the keenly watched rally in the backdrop of AIADMK's claim that Jayalalithaa had received a series of threats to her life if she stepped into Madurai, she said she would not be cowed down by such intimidating tactics.
"Is Madurai Alagiri's ancestral property? I am not going to be cowed down by these threats. Issuing repeated threats only proves someone is afraid of us," she said after she arrived here in a bullet proof vehicle, with nearly 1,000 AIADMK men trained in martial arts and calling themselves 'black cats' throwing a security ring around her.
Text: PTI
Image: AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa shows a victory sign to her supporters during a rally in Madurai on Monday, October 18, 2010. (Photographs copyright PTI)
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