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DMK will have nothing to do with Dinakaran

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Party members directed not to issue news items or ads

Prominence given to Jayalalithaa’s statement flayed
No iota of truth in her statement

CHENNAI: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has declared that it will have nothing to do with the Tamil daily Dinakaran.

A statement published in the party organ Murasoli on Thursday directed party members not to issue news items or advertisements to Dinakaran.

[Dinakaran, the Tamil newspaper owned by DMK president and Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s grand nephews Kalanidhi Maran and Dayanidhi Maran, was in the thick of controversy last year after it published the findings of an opinion poll on the popularity of leaders in the State. This poll held that Mr. Karunanidhi’s son M.K.Azhagiri, who holds sway in south Tamil Nadu, was not popular in Madurai. Dinakaran’s office at Madurai was subsequently attacked. Mr. Dayanidhi Maran, Member of Parliament elected on the DMK ticket from Central Chennai, was asked to step down from the post of Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology at the Centre. On the occasion of the Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin’s birthday in March, Mr Kalanidhi Maran called on him at his residence but in June, the Marans could not meet the Chief Minister on his birthday.]

Taking exception to the manner in which Dinakaran carried All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Jayalalithaa’s statement on the row surrounding cable television operations in Madurai, the party said when a majority of newspapers had chosen not to carry her statement in full, the motives of Dinakaran could be understood, going by the prominence given by the newspaper to the AIADMK leader’s statement.

Asserting there was not an iota of truth in Ms. Jayalalithaa’s statement, the party said it was an attempt to bring disrepute to the government.

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