Jaya attacks,PC reacts: ‘She has habit of starting on wrong foot’

“She has always had utter contempt for court proceedings and hence her statement today is not at all surprising,” he said in a statement.

After meeting the Prime Minister in the afternoon,Jaya had told reporters: “Our party has always maintained that Mr Chidambaram’s victory was through fraudulent means… his continuance in the Union Council of Minsters is untenable,” she told a press conference here.

“Mr Chidambaram was never elected to Parliament in 2009. He has played a fraud on the nation. Our party candidate won the election,” she said.

Jayalalithaa was asked a question whether her party had gone “soft” on the case filed by AIADMK candidate Rajakannapan against Chidambaram’s victory in Sivaganga

constituency in the 2009 elections.

The chief minister alleged that Chidambaram was announced the successful candidate because of a fraud committed by a data entry operator.

To this,Chidambaram said: “She knows her candidate Rajakannappan has filed an election petition in the Madras High Court and that is pending since September 2009. Her statement is therefore in gross contempt of court.”

The Home Minister said Rajakannappan had also contested the Assembly elections last month and lost from one of the segments in his Parliamentary constituency,Sivaganga.

“Perhaps,she would say that the election result was also fraudulent,” he said.

Jayalalithaa carped against Chidambaram while she chose to be soft on the Congress and the central government in response to various questions.