Author: Times News Network
Publication: The Times of India
Date: May 17, 2007
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/PM_skips_meeting_with_AIADMK_MPs/articleshow/2055688.cms
[Note from the Hindu Vivek Kendra: This is
the level of degenaration that a supposedly highly educated and a refined
person has allowed politics to degenarate to.]
AIADMK MPs seeking an appointment with Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh to press their demand for realignment of the proposed
Sethusamudram shipping canal have been kept waiting as concern that coalition
partner DMK might be miffed if he met Jayalalithaa's flock seems to be worrying
the PM.
The AIADMK parliamentary group was informed
on May 13 that the PM would meet the delegation at 11am on that day.
But within minutes, the MPs were told that the appointment had been called
off. Since then, the AIADMK group has been waiting for the appointment to
be confirmed but there has been no word from PMO.
There could be reasons for the PM to be cautious
as previously he had met MDMK chief Vaiko, a bitter political rival of DMK
boss M Karunanidhi, setting off a controversy.
Vaiko had come to protest the DMK's bid to
split his four-member group in Lok Sabha. While Vaiko and PM enjoy a cordial
relationship, the meeting did get Karunanidhi's goat.
