Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Tuesday accused the DMK of instigating the anti-Sterlite protesters in Thoothukudi on May 22.
Speaking in the Assembly, he said DMK legislator P. Geetha Jeevan (Thoothukudi constituency) had led a rally of about 200 persons in the coastal town on that day, in defiance of prohibitory orders.
However, Mr. Palaniswami did not, even once, mention that 13 persons had died in police firing. Instead, both in his hour-long reply to a special call attention motion on the issue and a report tabled in the House, he merely stated that 13 people had died without responding to treatment in hospital.