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Arrest of Karunanidhi in Tamil Nadu

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Any Tamils want to give their opinion on this topic?

 

Everyone knows both Jayalalitha and Karunanidhi steal money from the government, but the manner in which the arrest was made, dragging him and roughing up a 70 year old man was not very good. Also the assault on a Union Minister was not something you would expect in any country. There is a certain respect you should give to a high government officer even when arresting him. It was given to Jayalalitha when she was arrested. The same should have been given to Karunanidhi and the Union ministers.

 

Also the manner in which Jayalalitha, the Tamil Nadu chief minister, had every opposition party member throughout the state arrested was certainly undemocratic. The shutting down of television stations was also something you would expect in Sri Lanka, not in India. And finally the arrest of journalists covering the events was even worse.

 

I would hope the central government acts and dismisses the state government before Jayalalitha's reign of revenge goes any further.

 

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From Rediff.com

 

Cabinet to recommend Governor's recall

 

Tara Shankar Sahay in New Delhi

The Union Cabinet on Sunday decided to recommend to President K R Narayanan the immediate recall of Tamil Nadu Governor Fathima Beevi.

 

Briefing the media at the end of a marathon emergency session of the Cabinet convened at the residence of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Law Minister Arun Jaitley said that the Governor had "wholly failed to discharge her constitutional obligations."

 

"The report received by Union Home Secretary Kamal Pandey this morning does not reflect the true situation in Tamil Nadu today," the minister said. "The Cabinet has therefore decided to recommend the immediate recall of the governor."

 

In a scathing indictment of the TN governor, Jaitley said, "It is the obligation of the Governor to keep the President and the Centre informed of all significant political developments in the state. In this, Fathima Beevi has failed totally."

 

Jaitley pointed out, further, that Beevi's report, sent to the Centre following the direct expression of the PM's displeasure, was unsatisfactory.

 

"The report indicates that the governor did not make any independent and objective assessment of the situation in the state, but merely forwarded the views of the state government," Jaitley said. "In fact, several portions of her report are a verbatim reproduction of the report that the chief secretary has sent."

 

The minister said that the meeting today had discussed various issues arising out of the arrest of former TN Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi and Union Ministers Murasoli Maran and T R Balu. "The Cabinet will meet again tomorrow, to resolve certain issues and decide on the next course of action," Jaitley said.

 

 

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From Sify.com

Karunanidhi's mother-in-law passes away

 

Chennai, July 1

Sivapackiyam, mother-in-law of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, died following a heart attack here this morning.

 

She was 80. She is the mother of Rajathi ammal.

 

There are reports that Sivapackiyam died because of the shock of hearing about Karunanidhi's arrest. Unconfirmed sources also said that she had seen the Sun TV footage of Karunanidhi being taken

 

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From Redif.com

 

Karunanidhi's Arrest

 

In the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, Tamil Nadu police arrested former chief minister and DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi.

 

The ageing political leader was dragged, screaming, from his home on Oliver Road in Madras.

 

Union Cabinet Minister Murasoli Maran and other members of the Karunanidhi family who protested the treatment meted out to the leader were manhandled. Maran was subsequently admitted to Apollo Hospital for treatment.

 

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has condemned the arrest and called for a full report from the state chief secretary after failing to get in touch with Chief Minister J Jayalalitha.

 

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Karunanidhi roughed up, jailed

 

Union ministers Maran, Balu held ; Stalin surrenders

 

 

DH News Service

CHENNAI, June 30

 

In a pre-dawn swoop reminiscent of the dark days of the Emergency, the Chennai police today stormed the Oliver Road residence of 78-year-old DMK President and four times chief minister M Karunanidhi, dragged him out of bed and beat him up before arresting him in a newly dug up case concerning alleged misappropriation of Rs 12 crore in the construction of flyovers in the city.

Mr Karunanidhi was arrested around 1:45 am by a team of the Crime Branch CID without any warrant on the basis of a complaint given by newly appointed Chennai Corporation Commissioner A Acharyalu (an IAS officer who was suspended during the previous DMK rule).

After a few hours detention at the CB CID Office and a local police station, Mr Karunanidhi was produced before Principal Sessions Judge A Ashok Kumar at the crack of dawn. The judge remanded him to judicial custody till July 10 with a direction that he should be examined by a panel of government doctors and his personal physician.

Mr Karunanidhi sat in dharna before the Chennai central jail when the police refused to have him medically examined. He eventually relented as huge volatile crowds had gathered by then. Later, doctors examined Mr Karunanidhi in jail. Latest reports said Mr Karunanidhi is on a fast inside the jail.

 

(Right) M K Stalin, Chennai mayor and son of former chief minister M Karunanidhi, climbing the stairs of the house of the principal sessions judge before whom he surrendered in Chennai on Saturday. PTI

 

Mr Karunanidhi’s son and Chennai Corporation Mayor M K Stalin, who has been cited as the main accused in the case, gave himself up a couple of hours later before the same judge who remanded him to custody till July 10.

Before surrendering, Mr Stalin told reporters that when Ms Jayalalitha raised this scandal in the State Assembly, he had dared her to proceed against him. A visibly angry Mr Stalin recalled Ms Jayalalitha’s conviction in a couple of corruption cases and said: “I have nothing to hide nor will I run away from trial.”

Among others arrested in this case were the then Local Adminstration Minister Ko Si Mani, the then Chief Secretary K A Nambiar and the then Transport Minister K Ponmudi. In all, 14 persons have been cited as accused.

High drama surrounded Mr Karunanidhi’s arrest. His nephew and Union Industry Minister Murasoli Maran, who rushed to his residence on getting a distress call, objected to his arrest without a warrant. A heated argument ensued and the police beat up Mr Karunanidhi, dragged him all the way down the stairs, bundled him into a waiting police car and took him to CB CID office even as Mr Maran screamed, “Oh, they are killing him” and Mrs Karunanidhi and other family members wailed.

The whole shocking scene was shot with a handycam video camera and telecast to morning viewers by Sun TV run by Mr Maran’s son Kalanidhi Maran. When Mr Maran insisted on accompanying Mr Karunanidhi, police pulled him him out of the car at Vepery police station, dragged him inside and dropped him on a wooden plank.

Senior DMK leader and former Deputy Speaker Parithi Ilamvazhuthi, who was the first to be arrested by the Jayalalitha government after the AIADMK’s return to power in last month’s Assembly elections, and who was with Mr Karunanidhi, rushed Mr Maran to Apollo Hospital where he had only recently undergone angioplasty and got a cardiac pacemaker fitted. Mr Maran was put on intensive care and doctors said his condition was stable. Later he was arrested.

 

(Left) Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi staging a dharna with other supporters in front of the central jail after his arrest in Chennai on Saturday. AP

 

Another Union minister and senior leader T R Baalu, who insisted on being with Mr Karunanidhi when he was being interrogated at the CB CID office and barged his way into the Government Estate where the office is situated, was taken into custody on charge of obstructing public servants from discharging their duties and whisked away to yet another police station.

Mr Karunanidhi, who was visibly shaken by the sudden turn of events as could be seen from the graphic video clippings, broke down initially when he was not given time even to change his clothes, eyewitnesses said. He was taken away in his night dress, a white shirt and a lungi. By the time he was produced before the remand judge, his shirt was torn and he was still in a state of shock.

In the midst of the high drama, police had a tough time in keeping off media men, especially television crew. Those who forced their way into the CB CID office to meet Mr Karunanidhi were manhandled and some of them, especially the TV crew, were taken to Vepery police station and dumped there.

 

(Right) Police chasing away DMK volunteers who were protesting against the arrest of their leaders in Chennai on Saturday. PTI

 

When Mr Karunanidhi was taken to that police station before his remand, he managed to talk to the media. Giving a blow by blow account, Mr Karunanidhi said he had retired to bed around midnight after reading for a while. Around 1.45 am a posse of policemen forced their way into his house and broke into his bedroom. On learning that they had come to arrest him in a criminal case, Mr Karunanidhi asked him if there was an FIR or if they had obtained warrant. They replied in the negative but insisted on taking him away. He asked for time to change his clothes, but he was not allowed to move out of the room. Meanwhile, they allowed him to contact Mr Maran over the telephone.

Mr Karunanidhi said he was beaten up, lifted and dragged down the stairs into the waiting police vehicle. “My feet barely touched the stairs,” he said in a composed voice.

Mr Karunanidhi was almost close to tears when some newsmen managed to get to him immediately after his arrest. He was too overcome by emotion to react. He scribbled on the notepad of a reporter a message in Tamil, “aram vellum”, meaning justice will prevail.

 

 

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What can you expect from corrupt politicians? Jayalalita, Karunanidhi, and most of the politicians in India they get into politics to grab as much money as they can while they're in power. Same situation in Latin America, Africa and other parts of Asia. Even in Europe and over here. Corruption to the max. The ksatrias of Kali Yuga. Posted Image

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Some pictures of the arrest from a video tape. You can't really see what happened in the photos. The video tape is much more extreme.

 

To think that just a few weeks ago this man was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu; and at present he is the head of one of the alliance parties of the BJP government.

 

The FIR had been filed with police at 8pm in the night, and at 1 am the next morning the police do a raid on his house, breaking his door in and dragging him off. You would think he was a murderer or a terrorist by the way the police reacted. This is the first time ever in India a senior politician has been treated in this manner.

 

And along with him, Murasoli Maran, a Union Minister in the BJP central government was also dragged away. At least he managed to beat one of the police on the head as they carried him off. Too bad I don't have any photos from that video. They were kind of funny in a sense. He is being carried away by four or five police (literally off the ground), and he is simultaneously kicking one of the police with his foot and hitting the head of another police with his hand.

 

And then to cover things up, the police arrest all the journalists who were there filming; and then close down the local television stations. And of course they arrest another 30,000 people belonging to the DMK political party as a preventative measure, including elected MLAs.

 

Maybe I could understand this action a little more if it was a spotless man ordering it. But Jayalalitha has countless corruption cases filed against her, some of which she has lost and is now appealing. She was the person who on a salary of 1 rupee was spending crores and crores on her adopted sons marriage.

 

People could see something like this coming. As soon as she came to power, she transfered all the senior police officers in Tamil Nadu and appointed favorable associates to the posts.

 

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For those who aren't familiar with Karunanidhi, he is the most senior politician in Tamil Nadu, and probably the most powerful man there as well. He has been a leader in Tamil politics for 50 years. Up till a few weeks ago he was the Chief Minister, and no one could have dreamt he would be treated like this. Certainly no one would have dared do anything like this.

 

It appears Jayalalitha's time is growing short.

 

 

 

 

[This message has been edited by jndas (edited 07-01-2001).]

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