Jayalalithaa recovering fast, don’t make it a political issue: AIADMK

Karunanidhi had on Friday demanded the govt to ‘put an end to rumours’ regarding Jayalalithaa’s health.

Chennai: Ruling AIADMK on Sunday dismissed demands to release photographs of hospitalised party supreme and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to quell rumours about her health, saying the hospital was regularly releasing bulletins about her condition.

-"The hospital has been sharing bulletins about her health regularly. Even after sharing the bulletins, what do they expect ,-" AIADMK spokesperson C R Saraswathi told reporters.

-"Every day Ministers are coming and meeting her (Jayalalithaa) since local body elections are around the corner,-" she said.

On DMK President M Karunanidhi's suggestion to release a photograph of Jayalalithaa to quell rumours about her health, she said, -"Even if we do so, he will say it has been photo shopped. He is making such comments just to criticise us.-" She added that the DMK was making the matter a political issue.

Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan after participating in Gandhi Jayanthi celebrations in Kanyakumari, also echoed similar views, saying the hospital was releasing updates on the Chief Minister's health condition.

-"Bulletins are being issued from hospital and also from the government regularly. Even yesterday, Acting Governor (CH Vidyasagar Rao), had visited Jayalalitha and government released a bulletin. Still what do they expect ,-" he said to a query on the demand to release a photo of Jayalalitha.

Karunanidhi had recently said that though Apollo Hospital was issuing bulletins on her health, -"some unwanted rumours-" were deliberately being floated by -"some persons-".

He had suggested that photographs of Jayalalithaa be released through the media to quell any kind of rumour being circulated about her health.

PMK leader Dr S Ramadoss had also demanded that either an audio or video clipping of her health condition be released to put an end to rumours surrounding her health.

68-year-old Jayalalithaa was admitted to Apollo Hospital here on September 22 after she complained of fever and dehydration. She has been advised to stay for a few days at the hospital.