Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday blamed the  DMK Government for scaling down her security which resulted a stranger’s intrusion to her house on Tuesday.

Ms Jayalalitha also made it clear that she would take up the issue with the Centre and also move court.

Addressing a press conference at the AIADMK headquarters, she said “but for the alert given by Ms Sasikala and Ilavarasi, the intruder might have entered my room.”

Ms Jayalalitha dismissed Electricity Minister Arcot Veeraswamy’s claim that the man was an AIADMK sympathiser who had gone to her house to seek a job. She said had it been so, the man would not have entered her house with his shoes on. She also asked how the policemen allowed him to enter her house.   

Ms Jayalalitha, who is under Z plus category following threat to her life from LTTE and other extremist outfits, said the proximity cover by NSG was available to her only when she was in public.  The DMK, after coming to power, reduced the number of security personnel outside her house to just three constables. Former Andhra Pradesh CM and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, who is also in the same category, had 65 police personnel guarding his house.

In an effort to heighten her security cover, Ms Jayalalitha said she would lodge a complaint with the President, the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister and also move the Madras High Court.