Senior AIADMK leader and former Minister D. Jayakumar, who was arrested in three cases, including an incident of manhandling during the recent local bodies elections, is out on conditional bail. In an interview with The Hindu over the phone from Tiruchi, he alleged that the DMK government was intolerant, and had arrested him as a warning to the AIADMK. He also spoke about his party’s poor show in the urban civic polls. Excerpts.
