Jaya dubs Mamata’s resignation threat `an orchestrated drama’

It was deplorable, she said, that the Government which took just one day to hike the price of petroleum products should have to call a cabinet meeting even to say it would take a second look at it.

“We are asked to believe that Prime Minister Vajpayee has written a letter promising to re-examine the issue and that Mamata Banerjee, who received the letter, was satisfied and withdrew her resignation,” Jayalalitha said.

She criticised DMK ministers in the cabinet for being “accomplices in the action” instead of opposing the hike.

The AIADMK would hold demonstrations in front of Central Government offices in all district headquarters in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry on October 13 to condemn the price hike and to demand its immediate rollback, she said.