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Karunanidhi condemns attack on train

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Tuesday condemned the firebomb attack on the New Delhi-Wagah Samjhauta Express at Panipat. Replying questions, he said the attack made one doubt if truth had dissipated, conscience vanished, humanitarianism dried up and whether the world was filled with only communal hatred.

Pat for parties

While replying to another query, he commended political parties in the State for arriving at a unanimous resolution asking the Government to file a review petition before the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. Though leaders of various parties had expressed their views without any motive, the resolution adopted had incorporated all their fair and neutral views.

By adopting a united stand, setting aside political differences, these parties had thrown a challenge in a peaceful manner at those who resorted to violence in Karnataka.

On criticism that the dull polling in by-poll for 67 wards of the Chennai Corporation betrayed people's mood against the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Government, he said 45.75 per cent votes were polled in 1996 when the DMK was in power, 36.11 per cent in 2001 during the AIADMK rule, 55.03 per cent in 2006 during DMK rule and 30.76 per cent now, though the by-poll was boycotted by the AIADMK and the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

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