BJP's state unit president P. Radhakrishnan said that some allocations have also been made under the system, with 15% quota reserved under the discretion of the Chairman of CMDA.
'While the government had scrapped a similar system in Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) this discretionary quota continues in the CMDA.
It contradicts chief minister's statement (in Assembly last week) that the AIADMK had first introduced the discretionary quota and later amended it and the DMK was just following that procedure. But the CMDA adopted this quota system in 2009, during DMK rule. The chief minister must clarify on this,'' he told a press conference here.
He furnished a copy of the order, dated July 15, 2009, issued by the CMDA in this regad to buttress his claim.Months after an alleged land scam in Tamil Nadu surfaced in connection with the descretionary quota, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy had petitioned Governor Surjit Singh Barnala seeking sanction to prosecute Karunanidhi in this matter.
Karunanidhi had made a suo moto statement in the Assembly saying the quota system was introduced in 1979 by the AIADMK government which had later increased the government's quota during its 1991-96 tenure.
In the governor's address to the Assembly last month, the state government had said that it was immediately scrapping the discretionary quota in TNHB.
To a question, Radhakrishnan said that the party was not involved in talks with other parties on alliance and said that the state unit intended to contest from all the 234 seats for the Assembly elections due in May.
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