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“DMK will be happy if Eelam comes about”

Special Correspondent

Ramadoss asked to clarify Jayalalithaa’s stand on MDMK’s demand for removing ban on LTTE

Urges fasting women to give up protest
Assures them that he will talk to Sonia

CHENNAI: Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi on Monday said the DMK had made it very clear long ago that it would be the happiest organisation if the dream of a Tamil Eelam materialised in Sri Lanka.

In a statement, Mr.Karunanidhi said that he had made this clear in the Assembly, too.

Responding to a query from the PMK founder, Mr.Karunanidhi asked if Dr.Ramadoss would clarify to people what the stand of the leader of his alliance was on the MDMK’s demand for removal of the ban on the LTTE.

On whether the DMK was prepared to break its alliance with the Congress if the Centre did not break diplomatic ties with Sri Lanka, Mr.Karunanidhi asked why the PMK was so interested in the DMK breaking its alliance with the Congress.

Mr.Karunanidhi pointed out that Dr.Ramadoss’ son merely quit as Union Minister, but held on to his Rajya Sabha seat.

On the fast by a women’s organisation at the MDMK headquarters, Mr.Karunanidhi said that he had sent Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi there to request the group to give up the fast. They wanted an assurance from Congress president Sonia Gandhi that India would break all diplomatic ties with Sri Lanka.

The Chief Minister said that he had conveyed to the agitating women, through Ms.Kanimozhi, that he would talk to Ms.Gandhi, and that he believed that she would take appropriate steps to effect a ceasefire.

He was once again appealing to the women to give up their hunger strike.

On AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa’s claim that the Sethusamudram would affect fishermen adversely, Mr.Karunanidhi asked if she was not aware of this when she wrote to the then Prime Minister Narasimha Rao on the issue in 1991 and when she released her party’s manifestoes for the 2001 Assembly and the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. Mr.Karunanidhi alleged that it was because the United Progressive Alliance was implementing the scheme and since 60 per cent of the project work had been completed, Ms.Jayalalithaa was coming up with this theory now.

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