DMK MPs now aspire for Cabinet berth

08Balu.jpg.crop_display.jpg

The resignation of Dayanidhi Maran as union minister following the CBI indictment in the spectrum case has dented further the DMK image while reducing its representation in the Union Cabinet to just M.K. Alagiri, plus four ministers of state.

Notwithstanding all the humiliation that the party is now going through since the 2G scam broke out, many of its MPs are nurturing high hopes of being called to fill in the vacancies caused by Mr A. Raja and Mr Maran.

Meanwhile, a reluctant Alagiri has not been active in Parliamentary debates or Cabinet meetings.

He failed to turn up even for the Thursday’s meeting of the Cabinet, which turned out to be the last for Mr Maran before putting in his papers.

DMK sources said parliamentary party leader T.R. Baalu is the frontrunner for the cabinet post, while his colleagues in the Lok Sabha T.K.S. Elangovan, A.K.S. Vijayan, E.G. Sugavanam, T.M. Selvaganapathy, and Tiruchy N. Siva are confident of getting MoS. Minister of state for finance S.S. Palanimanickam, who is facing allegations of not having helped DMK candidates in the recent Assembly elections may be axed.

MoS for information and broadcasting, S. Jagathratchagan is hoping to step into his shoes.

But sources insisted that DMK chief M. Karunanidhi was not in a hurry to fill the spectrum vacancies in the Cabinet.

“His one-point agenda now is to secure daughter Kanimozhi’s release on bail. Besides, he is feeling embarrassed to speak to Sonia or PM for ministerial berths”, said a close Karuna aide, pointing out there “is no logic in pulling out of the UPA at this juncture when there are still three years to go for the present term and we did not pull out when Kani was jailed”.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/83784" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: &lt;a&gt; &lt;em&gt; &lt;strong&gt; &lt;cite&gt; &lt;code&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;ol&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;dl&gt; &lt;dt&gt; &lt;dd&gt;</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-ce244997d737ac7b024716e817d9cb2c" value="form-ce244997d737ac7b024716e817d9cb2c" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="80060375" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.