Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J JayalalithaaCHENNAI: Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) leader S Ramadoss on Monday accused the Tamil Nadu government of distributing notebooks, which have pictures of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, to school children.He said government websites and offices still carried the pictures of Jayalalithaa whom a special court in Bangalore unseated from the CM's post by convicting her in a disproportionate assets case on September 27.
"When the schools reopened after the first term vacations on October 8, the education department distributed notebooks and diaries to school children with pictures of scam-tainted Jayalalithaa. This will poison the minds of young ones," Ramadoss said in a statement.
"Officials say the pictures on the notebooks were printed before Jayalalithaa was imprisoned. However, in 2011, after a legal battle over the implementation of the uniform syllabus, the Jayalalithaa government removed the pictures of DMK chief M Karunanidhi from textbooks, even though it had lost the case in the Supreme Court. It also removed a reference to a Tamil meet and the title song of the meet from the textbooks," he said.
"The Tamil Nadu assembly website has Jayalalithaa's picture on its homepage and another picture of her taking oath as an MLA. If you click on the link to the Srirangam constituency, you will see her profile even though she is no more an MLA. The judgment of the special court in Bangalore is available on several websites, but the assembly secretary says he hasn't got a copy of the judgment. This is an attempt to cheat the people," said Ramadoss.
He demanded the government immediately remove Jayalalithaa's pictures from the websites, offices and notebooks.
Sign up here with your email
ConversionConversion EmoticonEmoticon