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Jayalalithaa emerges victorious against Muthuvel Karunanidhi

Jayalalithaa has shown to the world that Karunanidhi is a master in doublespeak.

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By getting a unanimous resolution passed in the state assembly on Tuesday asking the union government to grant clemency to the three LTTE assassins of Rajiv Gandhi, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has scored a huge sixer off the googly bowled by her bête noir and DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi.

Immediately after Jayalalithaa’s  announcement in the House on Monday that she was helpless in getting the death sentence of Santhan, Perarivalan and Murugan commuted to life imprisonment, the DMK president drove down to his party headquarters and  released a statement to the media asking the state and central governments to quash the death sentence of the trio.

But by that time Jayalalithaa had shown to the world that Karunanidhi is a master in doublespeak.

Though the clemency petitions of Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalaan had come to him in 2000 when he was the chief minister, Karunanidhi chose to look the other way.

“It is strange that he is pleading to the state and central governments for mercy on the three Tamil youths. When he was calling the shots in UPA 1 he did  nothing to get the presidential pardon for Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan. He was more worried about getting plum cabinet postings for his children and grand nephews,” said P Nedumaran, leader of Tamil Nationalist  Movement.

He said a word from the DMK president would have made a lot of difference. Nedumaran pointed out that the first thing done by Pratibha Patil  after getting elected as President was to make a visit to Chennai to thank the people of Tamil Nadu.

“But Karunanidhi is more concerned about  saving Raja and Kanimozhi. He did nothing to help these three persons,” he said.

According to a former chief justice of India, there was no possibility of any remission for the three LTTE activists.

“The only point on which they can question is the delay in the disposal of the mercy petition. Otherwise there is nothing in the law books which can get them a reprieve,’ he said. The justice also said that some of the political  leaders in the state have succeeded in making the issue a Tamil Vs India  fight.”

This is detrimental to the unity and integrity of the country,”  said the former CJI who did not want his name to be quoted.

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