Monday, May 14, 2007
Family Politics
Today's headlines - Dayanidhi Maran was forced to resign from the cabinet post he has been holding due to DMK's family feud. Another shameful incident which emphasize the presence of family politics in India.
Lets take a look at the DMK patriarch's family and how it runs the 'SARKAR' for all these years.
MK has three sons namely Stalin, Azhagiri and Thennarasu. TN state was divided among each son who manage!!! their respective region by their own rules. So where does Maran comes into picture? He, his brother and his father late Murasoli Maran understands the monetary advantages of capitalism and made hell lot of money through it. All these days they were the mouth and backbone for the publicity of DMK. Maran aligned with Stalin supporters to sideline Azhagiri who has dozens of criminal cases against him already. Azagiri was considered the blacksheep of the family and was kept on isolation many times. The recent opinion poll conducted by Dinakaran(also owned by Maran) and Sun TV were just an act by Maran to show his loyalty to Stalin who is likely to lead DMK in the near future. Maran cannot be the party leader individually as he lacked the political charisma needed in TN politics. He is educated like his father and can only stand behind Stalin to do politics as his father did standing behind MK. He understood this clearly and so the idea of opinion poll to show his loyalty. But it backfired for him.
MK and his sons sees Maran as a immdiate threat for them and their politics and hence they forced him to quit from cabinet and most likely from party as well. This is not new to MK as he had done this to Vaiko before who was seen as a vital competitor to Stalin then and hence was expelled from the party. He himself was so obsessed with power that he expelled MGR from party as he became a threat to his own position in the party. So in TN politics, history is kind of repeating itself.....
What happens to the fate of Maran and his family owned media will be known in the days to come.
Lets take a look at the DMK patriarch's family and how it runs the 'SARKAR' for all these years.
MK has three sons namely Stalin, Azhagiri and Thennarasu. TN state was divided among each son who manage!!! their respective region by their own rules. So where does Maran comes into picture? He, his brother and his father late Murasoli Maran understands the monetary advantages of capitalism and made hell lot of money through it. All these days they were the mouth and backbone for the publicity of DMK. Maran aligned with Stalin supporters to sideline Azhagiri who has dozens of criminal cases against him already. Azagiri was considered the blacksheep of the family and was kept on isolation many times. The recent opinion poll conducted by Dinakaran(also owned by Maran) and Sun TV were just an act by Maran to show his loyalty to Stalin who is likely to lead DMK in the near future. Maran cannot be the party leader individually as he lacked the political charisma needed in TN politics. He is educated like his father and can only stand behind Stalin to do politics as his father did standing behind MK. He understood this clearly and so the idea of opinion poll to show his loyalty. But it backfired for him.
MK and his sons sees Maran as a immdiate threat for them and their politics and hence they forced him to quit from cabinet and most likely from party as well. This is not new to MK as he had done this to Vaiko before who was seen as a vital competitor to Stalin then and hence was expelled from the party. He himself was so obsessed with power that he expelled MGR from party as he became a threat to his own position in the party. So in TN politics, history is kind of repeating itself.....
What happens to the fate of Maran and his family owned media will be known in the days to come.
# posted by Arunesh @ 4:32 AM 
