Mani abused me, faked attack: Jaya

In the statement, she noted that so far she had kept the issue to herself, but she was forced to come out in the open. ‘‘…I am only revealing this now because of the manner in which Mani Shankar Aiyar is trying to portray himself as a person who has been wronged,’’ she said. As for Aiyar’s allegations of assault by AIADMK men on him and his party office, she said it could well be an exercise to ‘‘gain political mileage out of a minor issue’’, adding Congressmen themselves could have damaged the MP’s office.

Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee, in a memorandum submitted to Governor P.S. Ramamohan Rao today, demanded an explanation from the CM for her ‘‘behaviour’’ at the function at Nagappattinam and her response to the attack on Aiyar.