Attack on ‘Dinakaran’ News Paper Office by M.K.Alagiri supporters three employees were killed.Now why patch-up with Karunanidhi?

Attack on ‘Dinakaran’ News Paper Office by M.K.Alagiri supporters three employees were killed.Now why patch-up with Karunanidhi?

Opposition leader in Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday demanded that chief minister and DMK president M Karunanidhi disclose the terms of his settlement with his grand-nephews, the Maran brothers. Contending that the people had a right know “the terms of the bargain”, Jayalalithaa raised questions about the fate of Arasu Cable Corporation, a cable network company floated by the government apparently to break the monopoly of Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV), a network firm belonging to Kalanithi M a r a n’s Sun Group, and the M a r a n side’s alleg at i o n s about a huge scam in spectrum allocation.

There were accusations of murder, arson and looting made by Kalanithi against Azhagiri after the May 2007 attack on ‘Dinakaran’, a Tamil daily from the Sun group, in which three employees were killed. Jayalalithaa wanted to know the fate of these charges. Jayalalithaa wanted to know if ‘monopoly in the cable TV business’ had been guaranteed to the Maran brothers as part of the settlement.

“The CM had carried the family dispute to the public platform by writing tearful articles and spiteful poems. So, now he cannot complaint if this settlement is analysed by those who are involved or interested in public affairs,” Jayalalithaa said. As long as the ‘war’ was going on, “he was acting like a war correspondent. Now, he has a duty to report on the terms of the ceasefire,” she said in a statement.

Whether Karunanidhi will explain the reasons for the patch-up?