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| Dayanidhi Maran resigns |
| After a crucial meeting of the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, the party had decided to issue a showcause notice to Maran on Sunday.
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| INDIA
, 14-May-2007
0:43:53 AM |
| Union Minister in charge of the fast growing IT and telecom sectors Dayanidhi Maran has sent his resignation letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
After a crucial meeting of the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, the party had decided to issue a showcause notice to Maran on Sunday.
Maran, who is seen shoulder to shoulder with Chief Minister M Karunanidhi in every occasion, had not attended the formal function to celebrate 50 years of Karunanidhi as MLA.
He had also been issued a show casue notice to explain why he should not be expelled from the primary membership of the party.
In a statement to NDTV Maran said, ''I have not done anything against the DMK chief or the party consciously or unconsciously nor will I in the future because I have been brought up by the DMK chief.''
''If expelling me from the post and primary membership makes DMK family happy, I have nothing more to say. For the last three years I have served the people of Tamil Nadu and the nation to the best of my ability and I got this chance from the DMK party to which I give my heartfelt thanks,'' he said in the statement.
Karunanidhi chaired the party meeting in Chennai, which discussed the family crisis that's hit the DMK.
Karunanidhi had been authorised to take step to secure Maran's resignation. It was decided in the meeting that the DMK will write to the Centre asking Maran to be dropped from the Cabinet.
Controversial poll
Trouble began for the party when some supporters of MK Azhagiri, Karunanidhi's elder son, set fire to a newspaper building owned by the Maran family.
The supporters were provoked over a report in Dinakaran, owned by the Maran family, which said that Azhagiri was favoured only by two per cent of the population as a successor to Chief Minister Karunanidhi.
The controversial opinion poll on Karunanidhi's successors that infuriated the Chief Minister's elder son Azhagiri and led to violence in Madurai, has cost Maran his job.
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