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Alliance issue closed: Karunanidhi

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Re-entry: A. Bhoopalan, PMK leader and Tindivanam Municipality Chairman, greeting Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi after joining the DMK on Friday. Finance Minister K. Anbazhagan is in the picture. —

CHENNAI: Ruling out any rapprochement with the Pattali Makkal Katchi, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Friday termed the alliance issue a “closed chapter.”

Talking to reporters at his Gopalapuram residence after inducting Tindivanam Municipality Chairman A. Boopalan, who was elected on a PMK ticket, into the DMK, Mr. Karunanidhi rejected the criticism that his party had unilaterally decided to snap ties with the PMK.

“The decision was taken within the party (DMK),” he said, adding that there was no proposal from Dr Ramadoss to consult others before nominating his son to the Rajya Sabha and later making him a Union Minister.

Asked about the resolution adopted in the general council meeting of the PMK, rejecting action against Kaduvetti Guru and giving a point-by- point reply to the DMK’s charges against the PMK, the Chief Minister said,

“It has proved what he had spoken.”

He said the speech could not be simply brushed aside just because it was made some months ago.

Asked whether any case would be filed against Mr. Guru, he said the issue had to be dealt with according to the law.

On the efforts made by Viduthalai Chiruthaikal Katchi president Thol Thirumavalavan to bring the DMK and the PMK together, the Chief Minister said that he also met him.

“But I told him that there was not even an attempt to express regret for Mr. Guru’s words.”

Asked whether he was open to rapprochement if the PMK came forward to express regret, the Chief Minister said the resolution of the general council did not make any such attempt. The alliance issue was a closed chapter, he said to persistent queries from reporters. Mr. Boopalan, who was with the DMK before defecting to the PMK, said he was returning to the DMK because he was not able to do any work in his municipality. He refused to go into the bickering between the DMK and the PMK.

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