Karunanidhi advise to Maran : Fight for your own cause

Tainted Union Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran will have to fight it alone against the recent allegations of corruption as his party is still reluctant to come out in his support. Former Chief Minister and DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, has made clear this much and quashed the hopes left among Maran supporters by saying that the Minister will fight the allegations legally and refused to spell out the support from DMK in this battle.

Fielding questions from mediapersons at his Gopalapuram residence here in Chennai, Karunanidhi said, "Maran had already made his stance clear on the issue and he would face it legally." Ironically, the top leaders from DMK, who had strongly defended former telecom minister A Raja on 2G Spectrum allegations, have not come out in defence of Dayanidhi Maran so far. Inside sources in the party reveal that a large section of the DMK cadres are 'happy' with the current fate of Maran and do not want the leadership to rally behind him.

Even after a week of intense anti- Maran campaign launched by the BJP and other Opposition parties, neither Karunanidhi nor DMK general secretary K Anbazhagan has issued a statement in support of him. Karunanidhi, who had been bombarded with questions regarding the party's support for former telecom minister by the media, seems to have consciously decided to isolate him in his fight to prove innocence.

Maran had been desperately trying to gather the party support in his do- ordie battle. However, the DMK leadership has not taken Maran taint as an insult to the party, already reeling under the charges levelled against its leaders in 2G spectrum.

Party insiders say the '' cease- fire agreement'' between the Maran brothers and Karunanidhi family, after a brief period of '' intense war'', was just a political decision and the embers of hatred are still smouldering inside both families. Moreover, the party leadership also suspect the hands of Maran in 2G spectrum exposure against A Raja, who was hailed as the Dalit face of the party by none other than Karunanidhi.

It is also said that the party leadership is now gathering their resources to bring out M P Kanimozhi, daughter of Karunanidhi, who along with Sarath Kumar was arrested by the CBI. And Maran cannot expect the DMK chief picking up cudgels for him in his battle for survival.

So it is time for Dayanidhi Maran to use all his political wisdom to ward off the charges that are propping up one after the other all alone without the support from the cadres or leaders of his party.