Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has rejected the charges of irregularities in allotment of land under discretionary quota. Karunanidhi hit back at Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy for seeking sanction for his prosecution on the issue, saying he is trying to twist facts.

A day after Swamy filed a petition with Governor Surjit Singh Barnala seeking sanction to prosecute Karunanidhi, the DMK patriarch made a submission in the Assembly, saying the discretionary quota was not ‘DMK specific’ and had been in vogue even during the tenures of AIADMK.

Karunanidhi said, eighty five per cent of allotments were being made through draw of lots of applications for Tamil Nadu Housing Board lands and houses. The rest had been given under discretionary quota. The plots or houses under both categories had been given at the same price.

He said plots and houses had been given at market rate to both applicants and beneficiairies under discretionary quota. Karunanidhi had yesterday sent a legal notice to Swamy for dragging his name into the 2G spectrum allocation scam.