By IANS
Chennai : Tamil Nadu’s Leader of Opposition J. Jayalalitha Thursday moved the Madras High Court against summons from the assembly’s privileges committee.
Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin had on Oct 18 raised a privilege issue against Jayalalitha, complaining that the AIADMK chief had alleged the day before in the media that he was plotting to kill her before the next assembly elections.
Following Stalin’s reference, the privileges committee summoned Jayalalitha to appear before it Friday.
Appealing to the court on her behalf, her counsel sought an early hearing considering the urgency of the issue.
After a stranger intruded into her Poes Garden house last month, Jayalalitha had said there was a threat to her life as the DMK government had downgraded her security. Her statement led to charges and counter-charges between the two Dravidian parties.
Stalin said Jayalalitha’s charges against him were blatant “attempts to tarnish” his “reputation and that of the chief minister (M. Karunanidhi, his father)” and urged the speaker to refer the matter to the privileges committee.