Whether Karunanidhi not ashamed of other misusing Powers?

Whether Karunanidhi not ashamed of other misusing Powers?

In Tamil Nadu social welfare minister Poongothai Aladi Aruna submitted her resignation, after being taped telling DVAC Director S K Upadhyay a police officer to dilute a corruption case against her relative. Chief Minister Karunanidhi in his statement stated, hat he cannot justify a Minister’s action to protect a relative who is facing corruption Charges and he feel ashamed. We don’t know, whether karunanidhi is ashamed only in Poongothai case. It is not known what was the DMK government’s stand was on other ministers allegedly misusing their office for similar ends.


Jain Commission Report.


In Jain commission report, Jain has quoted from a speech by the then Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar in the Lok Sabha on January 10, 1991. He had said: "Certain information that were just given to the chief minister (Karunanidhi) has gone to the LTTE headquarters not only in Tamil Nadu but even in Jaffna. This is something very serious." Whether Karunanidhi not ashamed for this?


Sarkaria Commission Report.


In the final report, the Sarkaria Commission came to the following conclusion on the allegations on the Veeranam scheme:
``It has been established that Shri. Karunanidhi, abusing his official position as Chief Minister, actuated with the motive to unduly favour Sathyanarayana Brothers with the award of the contract for the Veeranam project, directed the Chief Engineer, Shri. Hussain, to tailor his recommendations on the tenders in such a manner as would enable the Government to accept the tender of Sathyanarayana Bros...Whether Karunanidhi not ashamed for this?



[Former C.M.] Jayalalitha’s Statement.


Now the Opposition Party Leader Jayalalitha said in a statement here on Thursday, but warned chief minister MKarunanidhi against using it to take the moral high ground, as Union shipping and road transport minister T R Baalu faced a similar accusation of using his office in an attempt to influence a government official to grant favours for a company owned by his family.
“Poongothai had to resign because she was caught red-handed trying to influence an official. What about another minister in Karunandhi’s cabinet?” she asked, referring to Fisheries minister K P P Samy, who, she alleged, had barged into a police station with his brother and freed some suspects from a lock-up.

“Not only has Baalu refused to resign, he has even made out an argument that what he did was for the public good,” she said, and asked what happened to Karunanidhi’s moral high ground on such occasions.
She said the controversy also involved ‘telephone tapping’, and such larger issues were sought to be swept under the mat through the Poongothai incident. Even before the minister’s conversation with the vigilance officer had been disclosed in the media, the state chief secretary had been ‘unmasked’ trying to ‘influence’ the same officer over the phone, she said. She wanted to know whether phones were being tapped on the chief minister’s orders, or by police officers on their own. “Either he has to rein them in or resign,” Jayalalithaa said.



“Men are blind in their own cause.”