DMK will win: CM

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Chief Minister and DMK president M Karunanidhi has expressed the hope that his party would emerge triumphant in the 27 March bypoll for Pennagaram Assembly Constituency. Speaking to reporters here before leaving for Pennagaram to address an election meeting scheduled tonight, he said, ‘Our party will surely win the byelection. I have no doubts in it.’ . Asked about a reported remark of Union Minister for Chemical and Fertilisers M K Alagiri that he would never accept anyone other than Karunandhi as his leader, the Chief Minister said, ‘he (Alagiri) would be the better person to answer the question.’ Asked that Alagiri had hinted that no one had the talent to lead the party after Karunanidhi, the octogenarian said, ‘Even I too don’t know from which year I would not be there.’ On the Supreme Court’s ‘backing’ to actress Kushboo’s comments that there is no wrong in premartial sex, Karunanidhi said, ‘some would approach the issue on the basis of Kalaviyal in ancient Tamil literature.’ Meanwhile, the DMK president was given a rousing reception by party workers on the outskirts of Pennagaram, where he would address a mega public meeting in support of DMK candidate P N P Inbasekaran tonight. The DMK, which won all the byelections in the State after 2006, has been concentrating more on Pennagaram, a so-called PMK bastion, ever since the bypoll date was announced. Speaking to reporters recently, Karunanidhi said, ‘I had decided to campaign for the party candidate in Pennagaram constituency because the people are expecting me there. In the past I have visited Pennagaram many times to propagate the ideas of the DMK. Now I don’t like to disappoint the people of the constituency.’ The fact that the octogenarian himself is personally going to campiagn (he had opted out of active electioneering in the previous few byelections) indicates the seriousness with which the ruling party is approaching the challenge. Though there are 31 candidates in the fray, P N P Inbasekran (DMK), T R Anbazhagan (AIADMK), G K M Tamilkumaran (PMK) and Kaveri Varman (DMDK) are the key contestants for the 27 March polling. Campaigning will come to end tomorrow.

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