Chennai: The war between actor-politician Karunas and the AIADMK Government intensified with the former seeking the removal of Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal and the state police swooping on his residence here to make a pre-dawn arrest on Wednesday. While Karunas got himself admitted in the ICU of a private hospital claiming chest pain, the government told the High Court Bench at Madurai there was no plan to arrest him.
In his two-page letter sent to the Assembly secretary K Srinivasan, Mukkalathor Puli Padai leader Karunas, who was elected from Tiruvadanai constituency under the AIADMK’s ‘two-leaves’ symbol in the 2016 polls, said he intended to move a resolution in the House seeking to remove the Speaker by invoking Rule 68 of the TN Legislative Assembly Rules under Art 179 (C) of the Constitution by giving 14-day notice period.
Karunas in his letter also accused Speaker Dhanapal of acting in a biased manner. The letter was delivered by his lawyers. A copy of the letter was sent to the Speaker.
