Karunanidhi ,from the view of Party,can not afford to leave the congress fold ,considering that Jayalalithaa is in power in the Sate and she has already made her intentions of going after Karunanidhi clear, by appointing a Commission to inquire into the expenses of building a new Secretariat,reviving the Arasu Cable Net work,among other things.
Worse, the DMK is not even the leader of the Opposition, that goes to Vijayakanth.
Another Minister Dayanidhi Maran is likely to follow A.Raja to Tihar Jail.
More than anything else, Karunanidhi has to ensure he is not hounded out..
If he leaves now it will only confirm his guilt on 2G Scam.
Meanwhile his other house pressures are on to retaliate against Congress for arresting Kanimozhi.
;Congress does not seem to oblige, with Ghulam Nabi Azad declaring while Congress is sympathetic towards him,it is helpless in Court Orders on 2G Scam.
To arrive at a balance Karunanidhi is expected to announce the resignation of Ministers from the Cabinet and might offer issue based(?) support.
Congress,if it goes the DMK way it will be accused of sheltering the Corrupt(It is).
If it wants to jettison the DMK, it is difficult to make up 18 MPs,considering BSP/SP can not be relied upon as the UP Elections are approaching.
To depend on other groups is trickier.
Seizing the moment, AIADMK Chief is leaving for Delhi on 13 June to stitch up the Third Front.
She is alive to the fact the BJP is losing ground as reflected in the recent Elections,the Communists are nearly wiped out in the country,the Congress is on the back foot on 2G Scam,ISRO scam and other scams and that Sonia had a senior party leaders’ meet a couple of days ago after which the Congress leaders became strident in attacking Ramdev and Anna Hazare,that the Elections may be advanced.
Story:
An upset M Karunanidhi could decide tomorrow on the withdrawal of the DMK Ministers at the Centre at a meeting of the party’s top brass in Chennai.
This is the impression gaining ground in Congress circles here ahead of the emergency meeting of the DMK’s high-level Action Committee.
S.) 545 Vacant Constituencies 1
Nominated Member 2
S.No. Name of Party Member Leader
1 Indian National Congress(INC) 207 Shri Pranab Mukherjee
2 Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) 115 Smt. Sushma Swaraj
3 Samajwadi Party(SP) 22 Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav
4 Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) 21 Shri Dara Singh Chauhan
5 Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) 20 Shri Ram Sundar Das
6 All India Trinamool Congress(AITC) 19 Km. Mamata Banerjee
7 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(DMK) 18 Shri T.R.Baalu
8 Communist Party of India (Marxist)(CPI(M)) 16 Shri Basudeb Acharia
9 Biju Janata Dal(BJD) 14 Shri Arjun Charan Sethi
10 Shiv Sena(SS) 11 Shri Anant G. Geete
11 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(AIADMK) 9 Dr. M. Thambidurai
12 Independent(Ind.) 9 Shri Dinesh Yadav
13 Nationalist Congress Party(NCP) 9 Shri Sharad Pawar
14 Telugu Desam Party(TDP) 6 Shri Nama Nageswara Rao
15 Rashtriya Lok Dal(RLD) 5 –
16 Communist Party of India(CPI) 4 Shri Gurudas Dasgupta
17 Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD) 4 Shri Lalu Prasad
18 Shiromani Akali Dal(SAD) 4 Dr. Rattan Singh Ajnala
19 Jammu and Kashmir National Conference(J&KNC) 3
20 Janata Dal (Secular)(JD(S)) 3
21 All India Forward Bloc(AIFB) 2 Shri Narahari Mahato
22 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha(JMM) 2
23 Muslim League Kerala State Committee(MLKSC) 2 Shri E. Ahamed
24 Revolutionary Socialist Party(RSP) 2
25 Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) 2 Shri K. Chandrasekhar Rao
26 All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen(AIMIM) 1 Shri Asaduddin Owaisi
27 All India United Democratic Front(AIUDF) 1 Shri Badruddin Ajmal
28 Asom Gana Parishad(AGP) 1 Shri Joseph Toppo
29 Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi(BVA) 1 Shri Jadhav Baliram Sukur
30 Bodoland Peoples Front(BPF) 1 Shri Sansuma Khunggur Bwiswmuthiary
31 Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) (HJC) 1 Shri Bhajan Lal
32 Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)(JVM (P)) 1 Shri Babu Lal Marandi
33 Kerala Congress (M) (KC(M)) 1 Shri Jose K. Mani
34 Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(MDMK) 1 Shri Ganeshamurthi A.
35 Nagaland Peoples Front(NPF) 1 Shri C.M. Chang
36 Sikkim Democratic Front(SDF) 1 Shri Prem Das Rai
37 Swabhimani Paksha(SWP) 1 Shri Raju Shetti
38 Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi(VCK) 1 Shri Thirumaavalavan Thol
39 YSR Congress(YSRCONG) 1 Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy