Blow Hot, Blow Cold
It’s been a very trying time for DMK chief M. Karunanidhi. Not only personally, but on the party front too—his grandson, Dayanidhi Azhagiri, who is allegedly involved in the Rs 16,000 crore granite scam, is still absconding and obviously Karunanidhi’s counsel to son, union minister M.K. Azhagiri, to get the AWOL lad to surrender has fallen on deaf ears. But Karunanidhi’s anguish was worsened after this week saw senior partymen washing dirty linen in public. In his usual letter in party mouth piece, Murasoli, Karunanidhi wrote: “What can cadres do but shed tears of blood when senior leaders, who are holding party positions, battle in the open?”