Demonstrators burn a poster bearing images of Chief Minister of India's Tamil Nadu state J. Jayalalithaa (L) and M. Karunanidhi, leader of India's Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party, during a protest in Colombo April 2, 2013. The protesters were demonstrating against the two Indian political leaders, over two separate attacks last month on Sri Lankan Buddhist monks in Chennai, located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, according to the demonstrators. Karunanidhi previously served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Employees of the state-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority also held the protest on Tuesday against Indian imports after India voted last month in favour of a United Nations (U.N.) resolution to carry out credible investigations into the killings and disappearances during its nearly 30-year civil war, especially in the brutal final stages in 2009.
DMK chief M Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin termed theCentral Bureau of Investigation raids in his house a 'political vendetta'.
Stalin's house was searched by the CBI in Chennai this morning in connection with the alleged illegal import of cars.
The raids came just two days after Stalin's party, the DMK, pulled out of the ruling coalition at the Centre over what the DMK alleged was the government's unwillingness to take a strong stand against Sri Lanka at the UN's top human rights body in Geneva.
You see for yourself. The raids took place just two days after we quit the UPA, Stalin told reporters outside his house. We will face the case legally. I am unaware of the reasons for the CBI raid, he added.
Leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party M. Karunanidhi speaks at a press conference withdrawing support to India s ruling United Progressive Alliance government, at the party office in Chennai, India, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. The key ethnic Tamil political party withdrew from the government Tuesday over its unmet demands that India amend the U.N. resolution to declare that Sri Lanka committed genocide against its minority Tamil population during the final months of its civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels.
Chennai: DMK president M Karunanidhi today sought Centre's intervention in making Tamil a language of the court in Madras High Court.
Karunanidhi's plea comes days after reports of an advocate being denied permission by a high court judge to argue in Tamil saying it was not in consonance with the provisions of Constitution.
Chennai: DMK President M Karunanidhi today clarified that his party was not against the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, saying, DMK always supports industrial growth in a scientific manner.
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi today sarcastically thanked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for police denying permission for his party's human chain protest in black attire, saying the alternative plan of a pamphlet campaign had turned out to be more successful.
The party had initially announced staging a human chain today against the anti-people policies of the ruling AIADMK with party workers dressed in black outfit, but had to drop it for want of police permission both in Chennai and elsewhere.