CM's allegation to make me quit public life: Vaiko
Chennai, June 4 (UNI) Taking umbrage at the DMK's charge that he had planned to eliminate Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his family members, MDMK General Secretary Vaiko today said DMK President and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had made the ''slanderous allegation'' against him with the aim of making him quit public life.
Reacting to DMK MPs' recent memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking enhanced security for Mr Maran in view of the ''threat to his life from Mr Vaiko,'' the MDMK leader said people and neutral observers knew very well he had never incited violence or harmed anyone in his more than 40-year-long public life.
Mr Vaiko charged that after the elections, the family members of Mr Karunanidhi and Mr Maran came in their vehicle to attack his house. Besides a number of threatening telephone calls from organisations owned by the Maran family were received.
''We have handed over the list of telephone numbers to the Prime Minister. But we have received information that Mr Maran, who is in charge of the Communication Ministry, is misusing his power and exerting pressure on his officials to destroy the evidence,'' he said in a statement here.
Claiming the DMK MPs had given the 'slanderous complaint' to the Prime Minister only on the advice of Mr Karunanidhi, Mr Vaiko said ''in 1993, the DMK President accused me of conspiring to murder him.
In 2006, his grandson and Union Minister Maran has levelled the same charge.'' Stating he always tread Former Dravidian Leader C N Annadurai's path of non-violence, he said 'even when I was accused of murder conspiracy in 1993 or incarcerated, I have impressed upon the youth in the party not to give in to emotions and cause damage to public property.'' MORE UNI AKN GM RP KN1618