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CHENNAI: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president M. Karunanidhi has thanked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for clearing the new Chennai airport project. In a statement here, Mr. Karunanidhi said it was during the DMK party's tenure that it was decided to improve the international airport as a "world class airport" and his Government identified sufficient land for the same. He had written to the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Civil Aviation Minister Sharad Yadav and the letter was handed over by party MPs, including Union Ministers, on December 22, 2000. Though the Prime Minister gave an assurance it had not materialised. When the United Progressive Alliance Government was installed, he wrote again to Mr. Manmohan Singh and requested him personally to clear the project. In September 2004, a resolution was passed at a meeting of all members of Parliament from Tamil Nadu and submitted to both Mr. Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi. "On the basis of this demand, the Prime Minister accorded sanction to the project on March 10, 2005, and necessary land was obtained from the Government of Tamil Nadu," Mr. Karunanidhi said.
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