Chennai, May 05: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha boycotted the public function here attended by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee yesterday because she was to be seated "in a corner", she said in the state assembly today. The chief minister said she got a fax message from the Prime Minister's office on May 03 saying she should "sit in a corner" in the function in which Vajpayee had yesterday dedicated the new international departure terminal at the Chennai airport. Maintaining that "due respect was not shown" to her, Jayalalitha said in seating arrangements on the dais she was allotted a seat "in a corner" while Union Environment Minister T. R. Baalu, who she said, was in no (no) way associated with the function was seated next to the Prime Minister. Bureau Report