PC shares dais with DMK top brass at wedding
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Chennai: The state Congress has more than convincingly showed its desperation to partner with a major party, precisely, the DMK for 2016 Assembly polls, even when smaller parties are keeping their cards close to the chest. Surprisingly, some state Congress leaders have no qualms in revealing their intentions.
As if TNCC chief EVKS Elangovan’s feelers to Anna Arivalayam and subsequent flip flops were not manifest enough, ex-Union finance minister P. Chidambaram surprised even some of his partymen a few days back by rubbing shoulders with the high and mighty of the DMK, after almost two years, at a family wedding of a DMK functionary.
Chidambaram, leaving the marriage hall in a hurry to board a flight, gladly accepted the DMK leaders’ invitation, climbed the dais and shook hands with DMK president M. Karunanidhi and its treasurer M.K. Stalin. Should someone teach the DMK, which is keen on taking as many allies on board as possible for 2016, to put it good use? The following day’s ‘Murasoli’ had two page 1 photographs of Chidambaram’s surprise act at the wedding.
Burying the hatchet
Chidambaram supporter and former deputy mayor Karate Thiyagarajan reciprocated to DMK’s friendly gesture by posting a screen shot of the Murasoli report on his Facebook wall with a message reading; “Today DMK official newspaper, front page, yesterday Thalaivar Chidambaram went Anna Arivalayam marriage hall, to attend DMK advocate Shanmugasundaram daughter's marriage, there he met Kalaingar and Annan Stalin, some Congress leaders who claim they are close to Kalaingar and Annan Stalin their photos are not put in the front page in Murasoli new political development for Congress.”
Let alone the salvo fired at rival Elangovan camp, it is amply clear from Thyagu’s FB post that PC has indeed been trying to bury the hatchet with the DMK first family. Bad blood flew between the Chidambarams and Karunanidhis ever since the Congress unleashed the “2G demon” and got the Dravidian major into giving up 63 seats during the 2011 Assembly polls.
Seconding the view, a Congress senior referred to the Rahul-Stalin meeting at Nitish Kumar’s swearing in ceremony and under condition of anonymity said; “There is a great chance of the DMK and Congress fighting 2016 polls together, so he (Chidambaram) is doing the ground work.” Both may not be in not in the best of their terms, but and may also not want to show the acrimony ahead of an election year, the Congress senior added, lending credence to the belief that Sunday’s wedding could be the betrothal for a future marriage of convenience between the DMK and Congress.
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