New Delhi: The DMK is all set to celebrate 50 years of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi as a legislator.
However, the attack on the Tamil newspaper, Dinakaran office at Madurai, allegedly by supporters of M K Azhagiri, elder son Karunanidhi, has cast a shadow on the celebrations beginning in Chennai on Friday.
Upset over the incidents in which three employees of Dinakaran were killed, Karunanidhi had wanted cancellation of the celebrations.
Democratic Progressive Alliance party leaders, however, told him that they could understand his sentiments but the mega event should not be cancelled.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and former prime ministers V P Singh and I K Gujral are scheduled to felicitate him at a grand function in Chennai while Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee would greet him in the state legislature on May 12
While the DMK cadre was enthusiastically working to make the event a memorable one fitting the stature of their leader, Wednesday’s incidents cast a shadow on the occasion particularly after an opinion poll published by Dinakaran showed Karunanidhi's younger son M K Stalin rated better than his elder son M K Azhagiri, triggering a virtual revolt among the state's first family members.
While Karunanidhi's grand nephew and Managing Director of SUN TV network Kalanidhi Maran accused Azhagiri of instigating violence against Dinakaran Azhagiri alleged Maran was spreading falsehood against him by telecasting wrong news about him.
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