Karunanidhi has been the most manipulative and cunning politician India has seen till date. Yet, the tamil people seem oblivious to his misdeeds and enjoy their TV shows on their Free TVs.
I have been searching all over the internet for any article panning the performance of this government. There are blogs exclusively dedicated to discussing and criticising politicians, politics and society in Karnataka...and despite being a debate-oriented culture, we have none. Why is that?
There are a host of areas I would like to discuss about the Karunanidhi regime and its performance, but let me get started with this as my first post.
For starters, I did find a pretty detailed analysis of Karunanidhi's rise to power and the idea of mass-adulation of Tinsel-town professionals in Tamilnadu.
Extract:
...though blessed with excellent organization skills, oratory and mass adulation, Karunanidhi relied too much on his manipulatory cunningness and vanity. He wanted to be the ‘leader’ badly and out-foxed his seniors and contemporaries in DMK by devious methods. Initially, it was E.V.K.Sampath in 1961. Nedunchezhiyan was first outsmarted in 1969 and MGR was thrown out of DMK in 1972. Whereas Sampath and Nedunchezhiyan failed to tackle Karunanidhi effectively in politics, MGR succeeded in keeping Karunanidhi in political dog house for 11 years from 1977 to 1987. Nedunchezhiyan left Karunanidhi’s DMK and joined with MGR in 1978, and later even served as Jayalalitha’s Number 2, until his death in 2000....
Read the entire article here
Credit - http://www.tamilnation.org/
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