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DMK president M Karunanidhi will be in New Delhi on Monday to meet his daughter and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi. However, he is unlikely to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Talking to the media here on Sunday, Karunanidhi confirmed that he would be visiting Delhi on Monday. "Yes I am going to Delhi," he said, when asked if he would be in Delhi on Monday.
But when asked if he would be meeting Gandhi, Karunanidhi replied "I do not think there will be an opportunity."
He is expected to leave for Delhi by a morning flight and return to Chennai by an evening flight. It is not certain if the octogenarian would meet his daughter in Tihar jail or in the court. Kanimozhi's mother Rajathi Ammal met her on Saturday at the court.
Karunanidhi is also expected to meet former Telecom Minister A Raja and Kalaignar TV managing director Sharad Kumar.
It has been a ritual that Karunanidhi met Sonia every time he visited Delhi. But this time it is unlikely.
But he was quick to dispel impression of any rift with the Congress. "It is not like what you think," was the reply from Karunanidhi when questioned about the strain in the relations between the Congress and the DMK.
On Saturday, writing in his column in the DMK mouthpiece Murasoli, Karunanidhi said that his daughter's crime was only that she was a shareholder of Kalaignar TV. "The arrest is a vendetta against DMK and my family ranging from Kanyakumari to Himalayas," he wrote and expressed confidence that his party and family will win the final war.
Karunanidhi also asserted that it was on his insistence that his daughter became a shareholder of the family-owned channel, though she was disinclined to do so.
He had asked Kanimozhi to become a shareholder through the money received from Sun Television Network when his wife Dayalu Ammal sold her shares for Rs 100 crore in October 2005. He accounted that of the Rs 100 crore received, Rs 22.5 crore was paid as tax and the rest was shared. Kanimozhi received Rs 2 crore as her share from Dayalu and invested it in Kalaignar TV.
Talking to the media here on Sunday, Karunanidhi confirmed that he would be visiting Delhi on Monday. "Yes I am going to Delhi," he said, when asked if he would be in Delhi on Monday.
But when asked if he would be meeting Gandhi, Karunanidhi replied "I do not think there will be an opportunity."
He is expected to leave for Delhi by a morning flight and return to Chennai by an evening flight. It is not certain if the octogenarian would meet his daughter in Tihar jail or in the court. Kanimozhi's mother Rajathi Ammal met her on Saturday at the court.
Karunanidhi is also expected to meet former Telecom Minister A Raja and Kalaignar TV managing director Sharad Kumar.
It has been a ritual that Karunanidhi met Sonia every time he visited Delhi. But this time it is unlikely.
But he was quick to dispel impression of any rift with the Congress. "It is not like what you think," was the reply from Karunanidhi when questioned about the strain in the relations between the Congress and the DMK.
On Saturday, writing in his column in the DMK mouthpiece Murasoli, Karunanidhi said that his daughter's crime was only that she was a shareholder of Kalaignar TV. "The arrest is a vendetta against DMK and my family ranging from Kanyakumari to Himalayas," he wrote and expressed confidence that his party and family will win the final war.
Karunanidhi also asserted that it was on his insistence that his daughter became a shareholder of the family-owned channel, though she was disinclined to do so.
He had asked Kanimozhi to become a shareholder through the money received from Sun Television Network when his wife Dayalu Ammal sold her shares for Rs 100 crore in October 2005. He accounted that of the Rs 100 crore received, Rs 22.5 crore was paid as tax and the rest was shared. Kanimozhi received Rs 2 crore as her share from Dayalu and invested it in Kalaignar TV.
