CHENNAI: DMK working president MK Stalin said if a lie detector test was conducted, “many truths” will come from state ministers on the demise of AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa. Taking a dig at conflicting AIADMK leaders who have locked horns over access to Jaya during her hospitalisation, Stalin said rationalist outfit Dravidar Kazhagam's chief K Veeramani has given a “beautiful idea of a lie detector test.”
“Only if that method is used, many truths will come from the present ministers,” he told reporters when asked about contradictory claims of ministers over Jaya's 75-day hospitalisation and death on December 5 last year. Stalin said, K Veeramani had said truths over her death should be brought out using the lie detector test. Forest minister Dindigul C Sreenivasan and Commercial Taxes Minister KC Veeramani had said none had seen her during her time in the hospital. State Development Minister K Pandiarajan had also said he had never seen her during her hospitalisation. However, leaders Sellur K Raju and Nilofer Kafeel contradicted them. While Raju said “all ministers saw her”, Kafeel said he had seen her once when she was shifted from one room to another in Apollo Hospital.
Stalin stated that only a CBI probe would unearth the truth and not a commission of inquiry. Not only state ministers, but several others who had visited Apollo Hospital here during Jaya's hospitalisation should be inquired on the issue. He said, “Ministers who came from Delhi, doctors of AIIMS Delhi and London doctor (Dr Richard Beale)” should be questioned. “To inquire them and bring out the truth, we have been saying that only a CBI probe will do and we say that now as well.”
