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Tamil Nadu
By S. Vijay Kumar
Amid rumours of more exits coming about, the high command is said to have initiated a crisis management exercise. Even as a group of dejected workers, including those who resigned yesterday, was planning to float a ``Thakkiar Peravai'' and pass resolutions in favour of the ruling party at Sivaganga today, the move was dropped at the last-minute, DMK sources said. Party flags were, however, removed from many branch offices in the district, they said. The strongly-worded resignation letter faxed to the party headquarters `Anna Arivalayam' in Chennai on Sunday is seen as a reflection of the discontent brewing among the supporters of the former Minister, who was done to death here on May 20. While district office-bearers in Madurai and Sivaganga are tightlipped on the developments, a section of staunch cadres alleged that a caste colour was being given to the murder. ``Even as the police are yet to conclude investigations, the way Mr. Karunanidhi is giving statements and interviews has only aggravated the agony of cadres. We find no reason for continuing under such leadership and hence faxed our resignation letters,'' the State executive committee member, C. Ilangovan, told The Hindu last evening. Showering praise on Kiruttinan, the agitated functionaries said the party ranks and the people were shocked at the gruesome killing of the three-time Parliamentarian. ``While we are already plunged in deep sorrow, letters of the leader in Murasoli have pained us further. The views of the high command in the wake of the murder have tarnished its image," Mr. Ilangovan said. According to party sources, discontent is brewing over the way Mr. Karunanidhi and his Chennai-based son, M.K. Stalin, reacted to the murder. "Mr. Stalin's meeting with his elder brother, M.K. Azhagiri, in the Tiruchi Central prison was the last straw," one of the town secretaries, who resigned, said. (Mr. Azhagiri was arrested on the charge of a `conspiracy' to murder Kiruttinan near his K.K. Nagar residence here.) Among those who resigned were the Sivaganga town secretary, A. Azhagarsamy; the party general council member and former Kalayarkoil union secretary, N. Ramasamy; the town president, Duraisamy, and the treasurer, Nagarajan; the municipal councillors, L. Subbu, S. Jayakanthan, R. Sonaimuthu, and Rajangam; the town youth wing secretary, V. Palaniselvam, the district DMK lawyers' wing convener, S. Ravikumar, and the members (advocates) R. Prabhakaran, A. Sundar, M. Dharmarajan, and M. Arivazhagan; the Arsanur union councillor, Amaravathi, and a few branch secretaries. The cadres, however, are not joining any party. ``We are fed up with politics. The 45 years of service and sacrifice of Kiruttinan to the party has gone unrecognised,'' Mr. Ilangovan added. With Lok Sabha elections approaching, local functionaries here hope that the high command will depute senior leaders to sort out the differences in the south. ``Differences still persist as a majority of the organisational posts have been bagged by the Stalin camp. A consensus will have to be reached before the anti-incumbency factor gets neutralised by intra-party conflicts,'' said a former MLA.
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