NEW DELHI: DMK on Tuesday alleged that the Tamil Nadu government was trying to tarnish the image of the party by arresting its leaders in land grab cases and sought President Pratibha Patil’s intervention to stop the “human rights violations”.In a memorandum to the President submitted by Parliamentary party leader T R Baalu, they alleged that AIADMK government has constituted a special force to look into land grabbings during the DMK regime in a bid to “tarnish the image” of the party. The memorandum was signed by 21 of the DMK’s 24 MPs. Interestingly, the party’s lone Union Minister M K Alagiri’s signature was conspicuously missing. Apart from him, jailed MPs A Raja and K Kanimozhi too did not sign on the memorandum.It said said as many as 90 functionaries of the party have been arrested till date. It listed the names of prominent leaders such as former ministers Veerapandi Arumugam, K Ponmudy, K N Nehru, Pongalur Palanisamy, Parithi Ellamvazhuthi and Anitha Radhakrishnan, apart from sitting MLAs J Anbazhagan and Soundarapandian, among those targeted.“The state administration has given secret instructions to the police to launch criminal action against the DMK leaders by giving top priority to the complaints against them,” it said.The Goondas Act, which is a law meant to deal with habitual offenders and rowdy elements, has been invoked against 11 functionaries of the DMK though the basic characteristics of the Act are not at all applicable in these cases, it said.Leader of the DMK in the RS, Tiruchy Siva, said that President gave them a patient hearing. “The fundamental rights of the citizens are being violated and the arrested people are subjected to human rights violations. The observations made by the SC on how to deal with an arrested person are not being followed,” he alleged.The memorandum clai med that DMK leaders were arrested after getting false complaints and without proper arrest memo. They also claimed police were not acting with the same zest when it came to land grab cases against AIADMK.
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