New Delhi, October 7 – On the day when AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa’s crucial bail plea is expected to be heard in Karnataka High Court, her party flexed its muscles by putting up posters threatening the people from Karnataka in Tamil Nadu. The poster, however, were removed after sometime.
The AIADMK workers have put up posters in Kannada across Chennai threatening the Kannadigas that they would be held hostage in case the verdict does not go in their favour. “Caution, caution.
Release Jayalalithaa immediately, otherwise we will hold hostage of Kannadigas living in Tamil Nadu,” the poster says. AIADMK men get their heads tonsured in support of Jayalalithaa
The posters have been put up by AIADMK MP P Kumar, Tamil Nadu minister Valarmathi and South Chennai MLA, Kalairajan. The assets case against Jayalalithaa was transferred to a Bangalore court in 2003.
Meanwhile, security has been beefed up in Bangalore and the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border has been sealed. Jaya’s bail plea to come up for hearing in HC today The High Court will hear Jayalalithaa’s plea seeking immediate bail and suspension of her four-year sentence in an 18-year-old disproportionate assets case.
The High Court vacation bench had on October 1 deferred till October 7 pleas of Jayalalithaa and her close aide Sasikala and her relatives VN Sudhakaran and Elavarasi, who were also convicted in the case, to be taken by a regular bench after the end of Dussehra vacation.
-INDIA TODAY
