Monday, October 10, 2011

[ZESTCaste] DMK leader quits, raids on former ministers continue

 

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/196405/dmkamp8200leader-quits-raids-former-ministers.html

DMK leader quits, raids on former ministers continue
Chennai, Oct 8 (PTI)

Parithi Ilamvazhuthi, senior deputy general secretary of the DMK, on
Saturday quit his party post to protest against what he termed his
''self-respect being bruised'' in an intra-party tussle.

A popular Dalit face of the party who is also close to youth wing
leader M K Stalin, Ilamvazhuthi sent his resignation to DMK chief M
Karunanidhi in a hurriedly handwritten letter.

The former Tamil Nadu Assembly deputy speaker also sent copies of the
letter to party general secretary Prof K Anbazhagan and Stalin, after
a dissident, who had allegedly worked against Ilamvazhuthi in the
Assembly elections held this year, was reinstated by the party top
brass.

Ilamvazhuthi's decision, played down by DMK circles here, came on a
day when another former DMK minister came under the scanner for
allegedly amassing wealth disproportionate to his known source of
income.

The vigilance squad and anti-corruption police searched the residence
and other premises for former tourism minister Suresh Rajan, the fifth
former DMK minister, in Kanniyakumari district.

Though Ilamvazhuthi kept himself out of bounds of the me­dia, sources
close to him sa­id that he was miffed that a party dissident in his
constituency was readmitted to the party "even without consulting me".
This undermined "my self-res­p­ect," Ilamvazhuthi, widely ha­iled as
the "one-man Oppositi­on in the Assembly" in 1991 wh­en the DMK had
won ju­st two seats against a formidable Amma, said in his letter,
ev­en wh­ile sarcastically adding, "lo­ng live inner-party democracy."

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