AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on August 13 recounted the pandemonium and violence that unfolded in the Legislative Assembly on March 24, 1989, in which the then Leader of Opposition Jayalalithaa was attacked by some legislators.
A barbaric attack was unleashed on Jayalalithaa by the then DMK Ministers and MLA, in the presence of the then Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, he said in Madurai.
Stating he was a witness to the incident in the Assembly, he said it is a “black day” in the history of Tamil Nadu Assembly.