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N Sathiya Moorthy in Chennai
Tamil Nadu Public Works Department Minister and leader of the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, O Panneerselvam, on Friday said film star Rajnikanth was trying to seek publicity by calling for linking of rivers and launching a people's movement.
Panneerselvam said Rajnikanth was ignorant of the history of the demands made by AIADMK founder late M G Ramachandran, when he was chief minister in 1984.
The minister also said that Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had made a similar appeal to the Centre in a speech in the Rajya Sabha in 1984, and more recently in a letter to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in September.
Panneerselvam said that Rajnikanth was only exposing his 'ignorance' through his proposals.
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