Jayalalitha charged the ruling DMK partymen with continuing their `murderous attacks' against AIADMK cadres, disrupting public meetings organised by the AIADMK, and attacking the party's platform speakers. Under the DMK regime, the police were `silent spectators' and there was no record of them taking any action, she charged.

She said DMK men clambered on to the dais put up by the AIADMK at various places in the last few days and resorted to `rowdyism'. ``It is regrettable and condemnable that the police were protecting the DMK rowdies,'' she said.

Demanding police action following alleged murders and attacks on her party cadres, she said, ``Time will give a fitting reply to the anarchic and unjust acts of Karunanidhi.''

She listed out what she claimed were the various instances, even in1989 during the earlier DMK regime, when AIADMK cadres were allegedly attacked or killed by DMK partymen. In Oct 1997, DMK men surrounded the house of AIADMK party MLA R Tamaraikani in the Government Estate in Chennai, intending to attack him, she alleged.

During the same period, when senior party functionaries K Kalimuthu, Sedapatti R Muthiah and V Sathyamoorthy had gone to Pasumpon to pay their respects at the memorial of Muthuramalinga Thevar, they were attacked by a gang carrying weapons and Kalimuthu was badly injured, she said. The police did not give any protection to those who visited the memorial and even a complaint was not accepted by the police there, she added.

It was only because the hands of the police were tied that the DMK men were indulging in attacks against her partymen, she charged.