Sonia's charge against states not worth reacting to: Jayalalithaa

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Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday dismissed the statement of Congress President Sonia Gandhi that opposition governments in the states were not cooperating with the Centre in implementing its policies.

"The statement doesn't seem worth reacting," she shot back when asked by reporters about Sonia's statement in the Congress Working Committee meeting.

Ms Jayalalithaa was speaking after her arrival from Delhi where she attended a Planning Commission meeting to finalise the state's outlay which was fixed at Rs 28,000 crore.

Stating that the Centre's contribution in this was only Rs 3,000 crore, Jayalalithaa took a dig at the Planning Commission saying the exercise to discuss the outlay appeared to mean that her state was being told how to spend its own money.

On allegations of human rights violations against those protesting Kudankulam nuclear power plant, she said, "We would look into reports (about it)."

Earlier in the day, a group of intellectuals including former bureaucrats and academicians had alleged human rights violations in their report.

Commenting on Viswanathan Anand's latest win, Jayalalithaa said the Indian Chess grandmaster deserves the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna.

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