CHENNAI: DMK leader Kanimozhi is known for her mild mannerisms but not when it comes to Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa : “She behaves like a pharaoh,” the 46 year old daughter of party patriarch Karunanidhi said in an interview to ET on Tuesday. “The CM’s stage in her rallies has three decks. The top-most is air conditioned where she sits, there is a second one for her candidates and a third for the people who have to suffer the soaring heat...that's her idea of reaching out to people,” she explains her analogy.Attacking her party’s main rival, Kanimozhi said, “she has never been a normal CM who works from the secretariat and meets people. She thinks she is above all that. On the contrary, when Kalaignar read about a protest by the differently-abled, he rushed to meet them.”Besides attacking Jayalalithaa, Kanimozhi is playing a much more active role in the assembly polls this time. As the national points-person of the party, she was instrumental in ensuring DMK’s alliance with the Congress. Insiders said the final deal between the parties was struck only after she met Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi a week before the talks ended. As part of the party's manifesto steering committee and star campaigner, Kanimozhi is trying her best to win the confidence of voters, appealing largely to women, often seen as the CM’s constituency.She alleges that the state government has been in “sleep mode for five years.” She has a campaign style very different to Jayalalithaa’s. Campaigning in the evening, Kanimozhi arrives on time, gladly accepts greetings from people and speaks for less than 20 minutes, reminding people of the “apathy of the government during floods” and on issues related to their welfare. She goes from house to house while visiting villages, making it a point to have meals with the party’s local functionaries.She is armed with statistics that challenge the government's claims of progress, including Tamil Nadu being a surplus power state. “In the entire western belt there are several power cuts and power is being bought now. Excess costs are being borne by the industries that have no option but to close down. Prices of yarn have gone up. There is absolutely no help from the state government,” she said. “In five years, the AIADMK government has not produced one unit of power. Instead they closed down units in Ennore, Cheyyur which we had scheduled."All didn’t look well in the DMK patriarch's family till a year ago when the party made an effort to revive itself after its fateful performance in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. AIADMK had swept the elections then. However now, Kanimozhi is seen to be a supporter of her half-brother Stalin. But she makes it clear, “Karunanidhi will be the CM this time too.” Defending allegations that her family promotes dynasty politics she said, “it is about how children in many political families take to party politics...but there are those who work for years to strengthen the party. Stalin , for instance, has worked for 45 years to build the party's youth wing. How can one disregard that?” She goes on to add, “Stalin has been a good administrator. He has proved himself as the deputy CM and certainly people connect with him. We saw that in ‘nammaku naame’ campaigns.”She alleges that the AIADMK government didn't come up with any new scheme and only stopped DMK's projects. "We will redo the Anna Centenary Library and revive its glory. Government will function from the secretariat we built,” she said about the DMK's pet projects dumped by the AIADMK government.Increase in the number of young widows, addiction of school children to alcohol and increasing violence towards women has made prohibition a must, which a DMK government will effectively implement, she said. Commenting on the relationship between the BJP and the AIADMK Kanimozhi said, “ministers and PM go to her house but they speak against her when campaigning. They never spoke the truth about how badly the state government managed the floods. AIADMK makes it look like there is a perfect understanding between them. So it is really confusing.”