Chennai: It may be common in any other state but in Tamil Nadu, where politics gets as personal as it can get, after more than 15 years, AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa came face-to-face with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Karunanidhi in the state's legislative Assembly.
At the end of it, Jayalalithaa walked out protesting that she was not given enough time.
Jayalalithaa says, “They gave me very little time to speak. They want to scuttle our voice."
Jayalalithaa, who had earlier announced that she would not attend the House regularly fearing "insults" from the ruling party, had decided to be in the House following suspension of her 60 MLAs on Friday.
But fortunately Saturday's session didn't get chaotic. Instead Jayalalithaa and the DMK's ministers led by the Chief Minister debated several policy issues. Karunanidhi says if Amma does decide to attend the House more often she will get enough time to speak.
"Why wasn't she give enough time to speak today," says Karunanidhi.
"In 1985, a five Judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court had ruled that an Ordinance was enough to repeal a law and consent of the house was not required. Going by this the anti-conversion law already ceased to exist. The DMK had brought this up during its election campaign and a suitable reply had been given at that time itself," she said.
She also demanded that the farmers who had already remitted their loan amounts to the tune of about Rs 500 crore be reimbursed.
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