The catfight of the cousins—M. Karunanidhi‘s sons M.K. Stalin and M.K. Azhagiri on one side, Murasoli Maran‘s sons Kalanidhi and Dayanidhi Maran on the other—is already the talk of the town in Tamil Nadu.
The low rating for Azhagiri and the pumping up of Dayanidhi Maran in opinion polls carried by Dinakaran, owned by Kalanidhi Maran’s Sun TV group, has left three Sun employees dead and the Central Bureau of Investigation has been called in to probe the arson. But the fallout is far from over.
Dayanidhi Maran, the Union Information Technology minister, was conspicuously absent from the grand show to felicitate Karunanidhi upon his completion of 50 years as legislator, although both the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chief Sonia Gandhi were present.
Maran’s absence, he is currently holidaying in Ooty, has cast a shadow over his continuance in the UPA government much longer. And his fate is likely to be decided at an emergency meeting of the DMK this evening.
But the real surprise in l’affaire Azhagiri is Sun TV.
The channel shares the same rising sun emblem of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). It was on Sun’s back that the DMK stormed back to power in 1996. And when Jayalalithaa arrested Karunanidhi and put him behind bars, it was Sun TV’s visuals which swung public opinion.
But, suddenly, the DMK mouthpiece is baring its fangs. It has repeatedly called the goons who attacked its premises as “Azhagiri Rowdies”. And, in what could be a inkling of the shape of things to come, it seems to have quickly fallen out of favour with the DMK bosses.
Karunanidhi’s moment of pride, the felicitation, will be shown on television today for the benefit of the unwashed millions who couldn’t make it to Island Grounds on Friday. But—wait for this—the media vehicle that the DMK seems to have chosen is not Sun TV but on its competitor, RajTV.
And it wasn’t long ago that Sun TV was using its political clout in Delhi to get the uplinking licence of Raj TV revoked!
Cross-posted on sans serif
It is ‘yaadavee kalaha’ pure and simple. After Lord Krishna, the Yadavas fought amongst themselves and perished.
Reading and listening about the Inferno engineered no doubt by younger Karunanidhis, perhaps blessed by their father. One can draw parallel to Saddam Hussain and his sons Udai and Kusai. The latter terrorised Bagdad, wiping out the entire Iraqi football (soccer) team, when they failed to qualify for the World Cup. The elder Udai , like Stalin was a street rogue and womaniser to the extreme specialised in ‘torching tactics’, the like of which happened for Sun TV. Udai even murdered his own sisters’ husbands when they fell out of Saddam.
For Marans, the chikens re coming home to roost. For Dayanidhi Maran the seriousness is not about losing his cabinet ministership at the centre and will be more about losing his life at the hands of Tamil Nadu Udai and Kusai. Both Marans are no doubt ‘marked men’. Dyanidhi has insulted the Tamil Nadu Saddam by staying away from his celebrations. No doubt the tamil tiger cousins will return the favour for Thiru Karunanidhi for supporting their cause in 1980s who invited many of them ( the ‘thambis’ he called them!) to his ‘kingdom’ to live ( a few wandered across the border to Mysore, and Mysore for the first time in its history experienced the use of AK-47 in the street when a violent incident was due to AK47-doting tamil tigers).
For Sonia Ghandi, the incident may sound familiar in the streets of Palermo or even in her native Turin run by black-suited god fathers. This ugly Tamil Saddam and his sons are danger to the whole nation.
About calling CBI to investigate the Inferno. Thiru Karunanidhi knows that his ‘thambis’ the tamil tigers are safely back in their Srilankan hinter land, and CBI ‘s investigation hence will be a whitewash.
MEDIA WARS: SILENT BUDDHI JEEVIS!
These ugly media wars are bound to happen, because they are owned by politicians. How come the press clubs, intelligentia, our own “Buddhi Jeevis” are very silent on the attack on Dinakaran press? They cry hoarse on slightest “attack on the freedom of the press”…but death of 3 employees is not an event for them!
Is it the beginning of end for Karunanidhi and DMK? I think it is.
Reports say that Maran has resigned from the central ministry, and now the ‘Yadavee Kalaha’ has begun with full fanfare!
It is good Maran has quit. He was sending all the projects to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka was being sidelined. The Sun TV was being pampered with policies favourable to his networks.
Maran will be replaced by another DMK person that Karunanidhi chooses as the portfolios would have been worked out before the central coalition was put in place . hence one can expect a DMK IT minister at the centre. Nothing would hence change.
We can only hope this horrible UPA government finishes its term and never again the low cunning commies and template secularists ever come to power!
Maran was the hatchet man of Karunanidhi in the centre and when both of them sneezed Manmohan Singh used to get cold. That is how Tamil Nadu wallowed getting anything they wanted. Of course the recoubtable Aiyer did his bit when he was the petroleum minister. Who can blame them but the tragedy was Karnatak was left stranded. Enter Alhagiri and everyting is set to change for karnataka or will it is the question with FM holding the purse strings.
MK is with plenty of balls, he has chinna vedu and periya veedu, unlike the other CM’s and PM! Why be jealous of TN?! If Maran was to continue Sun tv would have bought DD!!
If you bend rules and a CROOK of first order …you can buy anything
including the Law in this country .
Bye SUN TV. Welcome SON TV
Dharma,
This only betrays a criminal Tamil mindset–no wonder they are detested everywhere. DMK should be renamed DKK (Dravida Keechaka Kalagam)–I am sure in Kamba’s Ramayana, Keechaka appears like a saint. May be he is the patron saint of DMK!!