Statue move irks Pondy AIADMK

Addressing reporters, AIAMDK legislature wing leader A Anbalagan said the announcement made with respect to installation of a bronze statue of Karunanidhi here and in Karaikal among others to commemorate the late DMK leader showed that Narayanasamy has a “political motive.”

Making it clear that the AIADMK did not object to the decision to have a statue of Karunanidhi installed in the UT, Anbalagan said, “When we demanded that a statue of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa be erected here, Narayanasamy pointed out that there was a ban on erecting statues by the Supreme Court.”

“Now he had come out with the announcement to have a statue of Karunanidhi only to gain political mileage,” he alleged and questioned the ‘haste’ on the part of the CM in announcing so. There was no plea from any quarter of the DMK in Tamil Nadu for a statue even in that state, he claimed.