CHENNAI: A day after two audio clips , purportedly containing recorded conversations between Tamil Nadu fisheries minister D Jayakumar and a woman, over her daughter’s pregnancy and advice from the ‘male’ voice to abort the fetus, went viral on social media, the minister denied it was his voice. Alleging it was an attempt by his detractors (from the rebel T T V Dhinakaran camp) to discredit him, Jayakumar said he was willing to undergo any test to prove himself.“For the last two years, a mafia group has been attempting to destroy my reputation. But they could not succeed. Unable to take me on politically and hit by my political statements, which I make on behalf of the AIADMK , these detractors have now stooped so low to create this. Just like we have morphed videos, this is a morphed audio,” Jayakumar told reporters in Chennai on Monday evening.“I will initiate legal action against those who made these audio clips and everyone responsible for it will be answerable,” the minister said.‘Not right to blame people based on clips’Though the audio clips had gone viral since Sunday night, the AIADMK remained silent for most of Monday, except for Lok Sabha deputy speaker, M Thambidurai, who came to Jayakumar’s defence. “It is not right to blame someone just based on audio clips. In the past, even video clips of certain people have turned out to be fake,” Thambidurai told reporters.AMMK deputy general secretary TTV sought to put the ball in Jayakumar’s court. “I too got that as WhatsApp forward. Is it real? The onus of proving one’s innocence is on the person who has come under suspicion,” he told reporters in Bengaluru, after visiting former AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala in the Parappana Agrahara prison

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