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| Karunanidhi meets Sonia Gandhi, |
| Karunanidhi meets Sonia Gandhi, Law Minister
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| INDIA
, 22-October-2011
4:28:55 AM |
| Minutes before a court in Delhi decided his daughter, Kanimozhi, would stand trial in the telecom scam, DMK chief M Karunanidhi met with Sonia Gandhi, the President of the UPA, for 15 minutes at her residence. Mr Karunanidhi's party described the 15-minute-long meeting as "a courtesy call" - the southern leader wanted to enquire about Mrs Gandhi's health. She returned a few weeks ago to Delhi after an operation in the United States.
But much will be read into the timing of their appointment. From Mrs Gandhi's home, Mr Karunanidhi drove to the court handling the telecom scam, where he dropped off Kanimozhi's mother. At 6 pm, he is expected to meet the Prime Minister.
Along with 13 other individuals and three companies, Kanimozhi was told the court has accepted all the charges levelled by the CBI - they include criminal conspiracy to cause criminal breach of trust by a public servant which comes with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Sources say that Mr Karunanidhi, who flew into Delhi from Chennai yesterday, met with Law Minister Salman Khursheed at a five-star hotel last night. The DMK chief is expected to meet his daughter at 4 pm today, most likely at Tihar Jail, where she has been staying since her arrest in May. Mr Karunanidhi has visited her here earlier, and is known to have broken down while talking to his child.
Kanimozhi, a Rajya Sabha MP, recently applied a third time for bail. Considerable controversy was generated after the media reported that the CBI had indicated that this time around, it would not oppose her bail. Kanimozhi's lawyers say because she is a woman and has to look after her young son, she should be allowed to return home.
Her arrest added a new stress-test case to her father's alliance with the Congress, which delivered disastrous results in the Tamil Nadu elections in May. Mr Karunanidhi was voted out as Chief Minister with the DMK embarrassed by one of its worst electoral scoreboards.
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