May 22 , 2011
CHENNAI: Asserting that his daughter DMK MP Kanimozhi was completely innocent as far as the money transfer relating to Kalaignar TV went, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Saturday described her arrest as the resultant effect of a plot created by those who had been nursing animosity against his family.
Indicating that the DMK cadre should get ready for an araporattam (struggle), Karunanidhi, in his letter to the party cadre said “in the end we will win”.
“I am writing this letter at a time when the DMK had faced big electoral loss... I don’t want to go into the question as to who was responsible for this defeat... whether the number of constituencies received by exerting pressure or the Election Commission that adopted extraordinary conditions in Tamil Nadu”, he said.
Karunanidhi revealed that Kanimozhi became a stakeholder in Kalaignar TV only upon his insistence.
“Apart from becoming a shareholder, Kanimozhi has not committed any mistake”, Karunanidhi said and added that despite the argument made by a senior advocate that the shareholders of a company need not be held responsible for the day-to-day affairs as well as the company’s financial issues, the court had arrested Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV’s CEO Sharad Kumar.
When Dayalu Ammal withdrew from Sun TV, she got Rs100 crore and after deducting the income tax, she got Rs 77.5 crore and of this, Kanimozhi got Rs 2 crore. It was only with this money, that Kanimozhi became one of the shareholders of Kalaignar TV, he said.
Observing that he had been born into a wealthy family in Tirukkuvalai village, Karunanidhi said that during his long public life, he had donated crores of rupees earned from his work in the film industry to charitable activities.
Besides, the DMK chief reiterated that he had never adopted any fraudulent means to amass wealth.
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