Karuna slams Left for targeting Azhagiri

DMK chief M Karunanidhi, who once claimed he would have become a Communist had he not met his mentors, on Tuesday said his "bitter" experience with the Left parties has made him to change his opinion about them.
    
Slamming the Left parties for targeting his son and DMK's Madurai Lok Sabha candidate M K Azhagiri, Karunanidhi, writing in DMK organ 'Murasoli', recalled his remarks that he would have become a Communist had he not met social reformer late
Periyar EV Ramasamy and DMK founder late CN Annadurai.

"I have now changed my opinion because of the bitter experience I had with the Communists," he said.
    
He said his old friend D Pandiyan, state CPI secretary, had been posing questions to him as to why he was paying special attention to Madurai, where Azhagiri was the DMK nominee, when there are 40 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
    
He accused Pandiyan of indulging in mudslinging against Azhagiri by connecting him to the murders of former DMK minister T Krittinan and former Madurai CPI-M councilor Leelavathy unnecessarily.
    
"They have forgotten my government's decision to allow a CPI-M advocate to represent the prosecution in the Leelavathy murder case. In Krittinan murder, somebody had achieved the twin purpose of killing him and blaming the DMK for it. Even before Azhagiri filed his papers, false charges were being hurled against him," Karunanidhi said.