Nation hasn't seen such worst central government: Jayalalithaa

Accusing DMK president M. Karunanidhi of trying to hoodwink the people, Jayalalithaa said the party was in power at the centre for nine years but it did not do anything to control the rising prices of essential items.

Referring to DMK's poll promise of reviewing the oil pricing policy, she said the party supported the central government and did not oppose the centre's decision to allow oil marketing companies to fix oil prices.

She said the centre had betrayed the interests of the state by reducing the kerosene allocation distributed through ration shops, not giving licence to the state government to run cable television operations and not setting up the Cauvery River Management Board to oversee sharing of Cauvery river waters between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, besides others.