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2G CASE VERDICT
DMK in the ascendantSantosh Kumar
Manmohan Singh
The clean chit given
to DMK patriarch M
Karunanidhi's daughter
Kanimozhi and party's
former telecom minister
A Raja by a CBI court in
the 2G spectrum allotment case of 2008
could not have come at a more
appropriate time than on the day of
polling in the RK Nagar by-election, the
constituency represented by the late J
Jayalalithaa.
A Raja and Kanimozhi
The judge, who had earlier discharged
another UPA minister and Karunanidhi's
grand nephew Dayanidhi Maran and his
brother Kalanidhi in a 2G related case,
said he has "absolutely no hesitation in
holding that the prosecution miserably
failed to prove any charge against any of
the accused, made in well-orchestrated
charge sheet". The order has come seven
years after the Supreme Court set up a
special court to try the accused.
In those seven years much water has
flown down the Cooum river in Chennai
with Jayalalithaa taking her AIADMK to a
second consecutive term in office, a feat
earlier accomplished by her mentor and DMK outcast MG Ramachandran. If the
DMK was the casualty of the 2G scam at
the state level with Jayalalithaa mopping
up all the 39 Lok Sabha seats, at the
national level its ally Congress was
decimated. When DMK Rajya Sabha MP
Kanimozhi, whose time in Tihar had
practically crippled the nonagenarian
Karunanidhi , told newspersons at the
end of the verdict that she always
believed she would "see light at the end
of the tunnel", she must have really
meant it.
M Karunanidhi
But there is a section of political
pundits in Tamil Nadu which view the
verdict suspiciously. The group sees
some sort of bait in the CBI court ruling,
though many in DMK feel the judgment
has nothing to do with BJP. A national
daily has quoted one prominent DMK
leader as saying, "It is good news for
Thalapathi (meaning 'commander' as
Stalin is called by party workers) and bad
news for EPS-OPS and their mentors in
Delhi." |