Chennai: With the ripples generated by the CAG report that forced A Raja to resign from the Cabinet over the spectrum scandal yet to subside, DMK president and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi left for his favourite beach resort outside Chennai on Tuesday, skipping a function of the government auditor that he was scheduled to attend in the morning.
Karunanidhi left for Mahabalipuram along with a few party leaders including state Law Minister Durai Murugan, who had dashed to Delhi apparently carrying a message from his leader to the Congress high command before Raja's resignation as the Union telecom minister on Sunday.
Sources said Raja was expected to call on Karunanidhi later on Tuesday.
This resort is the place which Karunanidhi had visited in the past especially during crunch times, and the present visit gathers special significance as this is one of the most serious crises the party had to face in the past few years.
However, though he was absent from the function to observe the completion of 150 years of the institution of Comptroller and Auditor General, his son and Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin read out his speech in which Karunanidhi said that while it was necessary to have a "vigilant and unrelenting critic" like the department, "the criticism needs to be always fair and unbiased. It should be based only on meticulous groundwork".
On the other side of the political divide, Opposition leader J Jayalalithaa, said: "If all the alliance partners of UPA, barring the DMK of course, are clear that their hands are clean, why should they shy away from a JPC probe?" Jaya asked in a statement on Tuesday.
The DMK hit back, releasing the latest epistle by Karunanidhi in the party organ, Murasoli, in which he strongly criticised Jaya's efforts, questioning the fairness in pronouncing the final verdict on the basis of what the CAG itself terms was "presumptive" loss.
Reminding Jaya of her own reaction as the CM to an unfavourable CAG report in 2004, Karunanidhi recalled she had gone to unprecedented levels to condemn the report by issuing full-page advertisements in newspapers.
Source: The Indian Express
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