Coimbatore: After two days of deliberations at the crucial executive committee meeting of the DMK in Coimbatore, the party has decided to maintain status quo on its future in the UPA government at the Centre. The general council resolution issued at the end of the meeting remained silent on the party's alliance with the Congress.
The resolution also remained silent about sending replacements to the Union Cabinet for two of its nominees - A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran - who quit over the 2G spectrum scam.
The Congress and the DMK have been together for seven years, but share a strained relationship since the 2G scam led to DMK patriarch Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi and party leader A Raja being arrested and sent to jail. Karunanidhi's grand-nephew, Dayanidhi Maran, was also forced to quit the Union Cabinet over his alleged role in the scam.
Party sources say the DMK cannot afford to snap ties with the Congress with Kanimozhi in jail and the Jayalalithaa government slapping land grab cases against DMK leaders.
Mounting pressure on the Centre, the DMK also reiterated bringing the Prime Minister under the ambit of the Lokpal.
The General Council also said Kanimozhi had been kept in jail for long which it said was against the 'principle of natural justice'.
Karunanidhi has repeatedly made his displeasure known over the continued imprisonment of his daughter and had even blamed the Centre for her plight.
The CBI's act of "scuttling Kanimozhi coming out on bail is motivated and biased," the resolution said pointing out that the court before which the case was pending had itself asked the investigating agency whether it was its intention that the accused should remain in jail.
In a bid to quell the succession battle between Karunanidhi's sons M K Alagiri and M K Stalin, the meet reposed faith in the leadership of the 87-year-old DMK chief.
"The Dravidian movement continues to be led by Karunanidhi," the resolution said.
Supporters of Stalin had yesterday vociferously pitched for a greater role for their leader which was resented by Alagiri's followers.
The issue was ultimately laid to rest by an upset Karunanidhi himself who reportedly asked the Executive meeting whether they wanted him to step down.
Yesterday, as the DMK leaders discussed the party's rout in the Assembly polls, party chief M Karunanidhi put up a brave face and told his partymen that "all of us are equally to blame" (for the poll debacle). He also asserted that the DMK was a fortress that had withstood even the Emergency.
"This setback is not worse than Emergency," Karunanidhi, whose government was dismissed and his son Stalin put in prison during that period, had said.
The DMK chief, however, sounded confident that the party would win the next elections
The resolution also remained silent about sending replacements to the Union Cabinet for two of its nominees - A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran - who quit over the 2G spectrum scam.
The Congress and the DMK have been together for seven years, but share a strained relationship since the 2G scam led to DMK patriarch Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi and party leader A Raja being arrested and sent to jail. Karunanidhi's grand-nephew, Dayanidhi Maran, was also forced to quit the Union Cabinet over his alleged role in the scam.
Party sources say the DMK cannot afford to snap ties with the Congress with Kanimozhi in jail and the Jayalalithaa government slapping land grab cases against DMK leaders.
Mounting pressure on the Centre, the DMK also reiterated bringing the Prime Minister under the ambit of the Lokpal.
The General Council also said Kanimozhi had been kept in jail for long which it said was against the 'principle of natural justice'.
Karunanidhi has repeatedly made his displeasure known over the continued imprisonment of his daughter and had even blamed the Centre for her plight.
The CBI's act of "scuttling Kanimozhi coming out on bail is motivated and biased," the resolution said pointing out that the court before which the case was pending had itself asked the investigating agency whether it was its intention that the accused should remain in jail.
In a bid to quell the succession battle between Karunanidhi's sons M K Alagiri and M K Stalin, the meet reposed faith in the leadership of the 87-year-old DMK chief.
"The Dravidian movement continues to be led by Karunanidhi," the resolution said.
Supporters of Stalin had yesterday vociferously pitched for a greater role for their leader which was resented by Alagiri's followers.
The issue was ultimately laid to rest by an upset Karunanidhi himself who reportedly asked the Executive meeting whether they wanted him to step down.
Yesterday, as the DMK leaders discussed the party's rout in the Assembly polls, party chief M Karunanidhi put up a brave face and told his partymen that "all of us are equally to blame" (for the poll debacle). He also asserted that the DMK was a fortress that had withstood even the Emergency.
"This setback is not worse than Emergency," Karunanidhi, whose government was dismissed and his son Stalin put in prison during that period, had said.
The DMK chief, however, sounded confident that the party would win the next elections
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