Chennai: The 23 law-makers of the DMK were evicted today from the Tamil Nadu legislature after they protested noisily against remarks about their chief.
M Karunanidhi, the 90 year-old boss of the DMK, had left the state assembly yesterday in anger, alleging that there were no arrangements for "a disabled person like me." He uses a wheelchair.
Today, he was absent when Power Minister N Viswanathan said that agreements to buy electricity from private firms, described as exorbitant by the DMK, had actually been struck by Mr Karunanidhi when he was Chief Minister.
"If a five-time Chief Minister doesn't know the deals signed during his tenure, I wonder if he pretends or he was not aware of what was happening then," the Power Minister said.
Outside, MK Stalin, a senior DMK leader and younger son of M Karunanidhi, said "The Power Minister speaks in such poor taste. He says Kalaignar (Karunandhi) doesn't know politics, law or administration. He wonders how he was Chief minister five times. Let me ask, is Mr Viswanathan a match even for the dust on Karunanidhi's feet?"
In the national election in May, Jayalalithaa's party won all but two parliamentary seats.
M Karunanidhi, the 90 year-old boss of the DMK, had left the state assembly yesterday in anger, alleging that there were no arrangements for "a disabled person like me." He uses a wheelchair.
Today, he was absent when Power Minister N Viswanathan said that agreements to buy electricity from private firms, described as exorbitant by the DMK, had actually been struck by Mr Karunanidhi when he was Chief Minister.
"If a five-time Chief Minister doesn't know the deals signed during his tenure, I wonder if he pretends or he was not aware of what was happening then," the Power Minister said.
Outside, MK Stalin, a senior DMK leader and younger son of M Karunanidhi, said "The Power Minister speaks in such poor taste. He says Kalaignar (Karunandhi) doesn't know politics, law or administration. He wonders how he was Chief minister five times. Let me ask, is Mr Viswanathan a match even for the dust on Karunanidhi's feet?"
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In the national election in May, Jayalalithaa's party won all but two parliamentary seats.
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