CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday rubbished DMK’s charge that she violated the conventions of the State Assembly by making announcements about new schemes ahead of the State budget for 2012-13.“The government headed by me has high regard for the conventions of the State Assembly. I am serving as the Chief Minister of the State for the third term and I know the rules and conventions of the House beyond doubt...we are not new to the Assembly or novices to politics...we never did anything against the rules and conventions and there is no need for doing so,” the Chief Minister said during the zero hour of the State Assembly.She was replying to the query of RPI leader CK Thamizharasan on the charge made by DMK floor leader MK Stalin that their party MLAs had staged a walk-out on March 23 as she had made announcements about new schemes ahead of the State budget.Taking a dig at the DMK, the CM wondered whether Stalin had levelled these charges out of ignorance or made them deliberately to malign the image of the AIADMK government. Urging Stalin to clarify on this issue, Jayalaltihaa said “DMK president M Karunanidhi was known for violating the conventions of the House by releasing the report of the Paul Commission.” (Karunanidhi released the report of Paul Commission in 1981, when the AIADMK founder MG Ramchandran was the Chief Minister).Stating that the DMK had its own conventions for conducting itself in the Assembly, Jayalalithaa said the members of the DMK had, in the past, boycotted the Governor’s address, replies to various discussions by the CM and Finance Minister and the discussions on the Police Department etc., Conforming to their past, the DMK MLAs had boycotted the budget presentation on March 26.The CM said in the background of the rout in the by-election to Sankaran Kovil Assembly constituency, the DMK, just for the sake of staging a walk-out levelled a charge contrary to the truth. She said since the media had reported the allegations of Stalin without checking their veracity, she had to clarify the issue in the Assembly.The announcements about providing 10 chairs each to all police stations, buying more patrolling vehicles for the police department made during March 23, 24 and 25 were not new ones but were the requests made during the conference of Collectors and SPs held in November last and during the budget session of last year. The G.Os for a couple of announcements were issued on March 13 and 14 and only these G.Os were issued in the form of government press releases on March 23, the CM clarified.She felt that the charges levelled against her were utterly false and no announcements were made ahead of the budget.
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