TIL Desk/National/Chennai/ Earth moving equipment arrive at Marina Beach after the Madras HC nod for the Karunanidhi’s burial here. The Dravida movement leader will be buried next to his mentor, C N Annadurai or Anna as he is popularly called. Annadurai was the founder-leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and was considered to be more than a comrade to Karunandihi, who referred to him as his brother.
Tamil Nadu’s main opposition party had moved the court last night after the AIADMK government rejected its request for allowing the burial of Karunanidhi on the famed Marina sands. Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks to MK Stalin and Kanimozhi after paying his respects to M Karunanidhi at Chennai’s Rajaji Hall.
The PM held Kanimozhi and Stalin’s hand and consoled them. Kanimozhi, who is Karunannidhi’s youngest child, the daughter of this third wife, Dayaluammal, looked more stoic than Stalin, who broke down on hearing the news of the positive verdict on the burial.
The VVIPs in Chennai today are PM Modi, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Governor Justice (Retd) Sadhasivam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, Chief Minister of Telangana Chandrashekhar Rao, Former Kerala CM Oommen Chandy, Former Karnataka CM Veerappa Moily, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu.
