Rationalist DMK turns to Ramayana for Solace.

The scramble for power between Karunanidhi’s sons,M.K.Stalin and Mu.Ka.Azhagiri is well-known.

The issue has been cropping up off and on.

Recently it erupted in the DMK General Council Meeting when Veerapandi Arumugam, ex Minister and a known Azhagiri loyalist and Stalin baiter started attacking Stalin indirectly and he was booed and the situation made Karunanidihi to challenge his son Stalin to contest the Election  for the post of DMK Chief against him.

Exasperated K.Anbazhagan,Rubber Stamp Secretary of DMK and a sycophant of Karunanidhi  quoted Ramayana,which is regularly criticised by DMK leaders right from stating that it is well nigh impossible for Sita to have retained her chastity after having been in Ravana’s prison(Annadurai in Kambarasam,a book written by him to insult the Ramayana) to calling Lord Rama names by Karunanidhi) to pacify the warring factions of the DMK brothers.

What a Rationalism!

“The “rationalist” DMK in Tamil Nadu has now turned to the ‘Ramayana’, a text that its Dravidian movement mentor Periyar had decried, to help soften the blow from the latest bout of sibling rivalry that reared its ugly head at the recently concluded general council meeting………

Even the 88-year-old party patriarch M Karunanidhi was shell-shocked at this open tussle that he saw in it a “conspiracy” to break the unity within.

Karunanidhi was so disgusted at this turn of events that he told his partymen to “elect their own new leader”, but was persuaded by seniors on stage to stay on, sources told Deccan Herald. Also, Karunanidhi’s elder son M K Alagiri studiously kept away from the evening session when the inner-party struggle popped up again. Though Veerapandi S Arumugam is known for such abrasive remarks, given the 90-years-old Prof Anbazhagan’s vast experience as DMK’s general secretary since 1977, could not dismiss it as a routine surface rift.

In the larger backdrop, when two of the DMK’s senior-most leaders are handling a crucial leadership transition in the party, amid the image dent it has suffered in the wake of the ‘2G’ scam and other issues, Anbazhagan decided to bite the bullet as a Tamil scholar…..

Anbazhagan thus came out candidly, urging everyone to learn a lesson or two from ‘Ramayana’, “though I have criticised it in the past”. The travails of Rama were many, but Barath did not exploit his adversity. Likewise, Rama’s two other brothers, Lakshman and Shatrugnan, stood by him and there was a “rare unity among the brothers despite differences.”

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/224887/dmk-turns-ramayana-end-sibling.html

P.S.When MGR was convalescing in the US, elections were called and MGR could not campaign as he was in the US under treatment.

At that time Karunanidhi beseeched the voters to elect him as he ‘would run the Government on behalf of MGR as Bharath did with Lord Rama’s  footwear as the Ruler!”

 

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