DMK Government schemes should not be named after her, old ones renamed: DMK DMK making false statements, shows uncultured side: AIADMK DMK leader MK Stalin said he had complained to the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary. (File Photo) Contending that she had been convicted in a corruption case, the DMK today called for government schemes named after former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to be renamed and portraits of her removed from offices. DMK Working President and Leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly M K Stalin also protested "the use of taxpayers' money for her 69th birthday celebrations" yesterday."Jayalalithaa was convicted (in the Rs 66 crore disproportionate assets case). Already there are some schemes in her name and the government should not allow new schemes to be named after her," he told reporters in Chennai.He said Ms Jayalalithaa's portraits at the Secretariat, the ministers' rooms and local body offices should be removed. He said the DMK might move court if their demands were not met.Mr Stalin said he had raised his complaint with Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan who assured him that he'll look into them.Mr Stalin opposed advertisements commissioned by the state government on Ms Jayalalithaa's 69th birthday and criticised the participation of Chief Minister E K Palaniswami, his ministers and senior officials, including the Chief Secretary, in a tree plantation drive On February 14, the Supreme Court had restored a lower court order on convicting Ms Jayalalithaa, her aide V K Sasikala and two others , sentencing them to four years in prison for accumulating illicit fortune. The charges against Ms Jayalalithaa had abated since she had died on December 5, 2016 but the court had held that the criminal conspiracy was hatched at her Poes Garden residence in Chennai.Taking strong exception to the remarks made by Mr Stalin, the ruling AIADMK sought an "open apology" from him. "When scores of her supporters are in grief following her demise, making such slander and false remarks shows Stalin's uncultured side," AIADMK Deputy General Secretary TTV Dinakaran said in a statement.(With inputs from PTI)

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