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Yet Karunanidhi goes around asking people to elect him as he is the best servant TamilNadu has and in return for people’s kindness he is offering himself in return!

The 2G-Kanimozhi connection is now getting stronger. Network18 has details that exposes how NGOs associated with the DMK MP and daughter of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi, received donations from various telecom companies that has won 2G licenses.

Tamil Maiyyam, an NGO closely associated with DMK MP and Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi was raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in December last year in connection with the 2G scam. Now, the CBI and ED are probing whether the NGO was used as a conduit for channeling 2G bribe money.

Network18 has accessed the audited balance sheets of Tamil Maiyyam which reveal direct payments by telecom operators to the NGO especially in 2007 and 2008. That was the period when the 2G telecom licenses were awarded by the telecom ministry headed by A Raja.

In a shocking submission, CBI officials have admitted to Network18 they had these documents even before the main chargesheet was filed on April 2. The big question is then why did it not include this evidence to nail the DMK first family. Did the CBI wait for elections in Tamil Nadu to be over?

The balance sheets show that the payments were made by telecom majors just five days before the award of the licence on January 10, 2008. Among them, Unitech and Tata Tele Services paid Rs 50 lakh and Rs 25 lakh, respectively on January 5, 2008, MTS or Systema Shyam and Reliance Capital Ltd paid Rs 10 lakh and paid Rs 25 lakh respectively on January 7. Even IndiaBulls paid Rs 50 lakh on the October 31, 2007. Its licence was however rejected by the DoT.

Questions are being raised as to why telecom operators would be interested in promoting cultural activities in an NGO in Tamil Nadu.

Interestingly, these operators showed no interest in donating to the NGO either before or after the award of the licences.

Off the record CBI officers say the amounts are too small to bother with. But on record, all that the CBI will admit to is that the agency is probing whether the money was used as a quid pro quo by the telecom operators in order to get a licence.

Surprisingly, the agency is sitting on another crucial evidence—a Rs 50 crore loan by S Tel to Kalaignar TV. The Enforcement Directorate has already included this in its complaint filed last week.

The amount paid to the DMK NGO might be small change where kickbacks are concerned according to the CBI but it’s enough to establish guilt. However, with the CBI not taking cognizance of it as yet, this balance sheet will be enough ammunition for the opposition to say the CBI is going soft on a crucial UPA ally keeping in mind the Tamil Nadu elections.

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/cnbc-tv18-comments/the-2g-scam-kanimozhi39s-ngo-cover_536113.html

Related.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/dmk-ngo-bribed-by-2g-telecom-companies/149142-37-64.html

Karunanidhi can’t ditch Raja.

Since he became a MP in 1996 and a Union Minister in 1999, Raja (47) learnt early on what ticked in the DMK.

Do exactly as told by the party boss, Raja often told close friends. “That’s the way you stay close to the DMK patriarch, and out of the rivalry involving his sons, M. K. Alagiri and M. K. Stalin”. The other ‘golden’ rule, Raja learnt, was to ensuring that “you contribute more for the party than for yourself”.

Between 2004 and 2009, Raja’s contribution to the DMK coffers was more than that of T.R. Baalu, Transport Minister in UPA-I, who couldn’t make it to UPA-II Cabinet, recalled a party insider.

Unlike Baalu, Raja did exactly what the party said and his contribution for the DMK’s treasury for the 2009 Lok Sabha polls impressed Karunanidhi, another DMK official said.

Whether it was destiny or fortuitous circumstances, like Baalu, Raja got close to Karunanidhi’s second wife, Rajathi and their daughter, Kanimozhi. They seemed to be quite impressed with his sense of “business promotion”.

So when Dayanidhi Maran was forced to quit as telecom minister in April 2007, Raja fit right in.

Karunanidhi was livid that Dayanidhi and brother Kalanidhi had become too ambitious, holding popularity contests against Alagiri in their newspaper, whose office was burnt down.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Why-Karunanidhi-can-t-ditch-Spectrum-Raja/Article1-539916.aspx

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