Addressing a press conference here after the meeting of party high Command, DMK chief M.Karunanidhi said the arrest of Kani Mozhi will be battled legally.
Distancing himself from the Textile Minister Dayanidhi Maran’s controversy, Karunanidhi said Maran will answer all the questions himself. The party also passed a resolution that central government should insist Sri Lankan government to treat Tamil people at par with Singhalese.
DMK apex body met here today to deliberate on events in the wake of the arrest in Delhi of its representatives, ex-telecom minister A Raja and party supremo M Karunanidhi’s daughter and Rajya Sabha member, Kanimozhi, in the telecom spectrum case. The party decided to fight the spectrum allegations legally.
Karunanidhi chaired the meeting. Also attending the meet were his sons, M K Stalin, former deputy chief minister; M K Alagiri, Union minister for chemicals and fertiliser; former state finance minister K Anbazhagan and other leaders. It was the first such meeting after the legislative assembly elections.
The party has six ministers in the UPA Government —Maran, Alagiri, S S Palanimanickam, Gandhiselvan, D Napolean and S Jagatrakshakan. It has 18 Lok Sabha MPs. After the arrests, relations between the Congress and DMK had started souring. For the first time in seven years, after DMK became a key ally for the Congress, Karunanidhi had come to Delhi and left without meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi. He was in Delhi at the end of last month to visit Kanimozhi in jail.
Political observers said they were not surprised by today’s decision. It could have been a big mistake for the DMK to pull out of the alliance at such a time.