Karunanidhi ready to call it a day?

Chennai: Hinting at possible retirement after June next year, DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said he would dedicate more time to the people after completing some of his "important ambitions, including successful conduct of the International Classical Tamil Conference in June next year".

"Brushing aside politics and power, I will come closer to the people," he said at a community rally in Chennai.

The chief minister said his remaining ambitions are completion of the under-construction, new secretariat building and the successful conduct of the International Classical Tamil Conference scheduled to be held in Coimbatore next year, after which he would "come closer to the people and make myself one among you".