Karunanidhi suspects "motives" behind seer's arrest

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HinduThought, "Ashok Chowgule" <ashokvc@c...>

wrote:

The problem with the media in India is that people like Karunanidhi

are

allowed to change their positions without being thoroughly

interrogated.

 

Namaste.

Ashok Chowgule

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karunanidhi suspects "motives" behind seer's arrest

 

Chennai, Nov. 22. (PTI): DMK president M Karunanidhi today said he

suspected "personal vengeance and motives" behind the way in which

Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati was treated after his arrest.

 

"It is too much. My opinion is the same that of the Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh on the issue," he told reporters.

 

"We have welcomed the arrest of Sankaracharya but now we have come

to

know that there are certain things behind the arrest. There is

personal

vengeance on the part of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa," he alleged.

 

He said the Sankaracharya was arrested only after two and a half

months

after the temple official Sankararaman was murdered. "What happened

in

between. Why is the delay. They say it was due to investigation. But

on

hearing certain facts, doubts have been created," he said.

 

Asked whether there was a political motive behind the arrest, he

said

"There are a lot of personal issues between Jayalalithaa and the

Sankaracharya. This should not be forgotten."

 

Asked whether his present statement contradicted his earlier stand

of

welcoming the arrest, Karunanidhi said "I welcomed the arrest then.

But

further information on the arrest has raised a lot of doubts."

 

The Government had not given any proper explanation to the doubts

raised

by some leaders on the arrest of Sankaracharya and on the killing of

forest brigand Veerappan, he said.

 

On VHP working president Ashok Singhal's allegation against Congress

president Sonia Gandhi on the arrest issue, he said nobody will

accept

it.

 

"Is Sonia Gandhi the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. What is the

reaction

of those asserting that the Centre should not interfere in the

rights of

the states, to this charge," he asked.

 

On the BJP's protest against the arrest, he said "they are doing

their

duty. But it is better that they do not spark any communal fight

over

the issue," he said.

 

On remarks expressed by certain quarters that the seer was innocent,

he

said it was for the court to decide.

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