I will mediate between Left and Congress: Karunanidhi

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will mediate between the Congress and the Left parties in an effort to resolve their differences over the India-U.S. nuclear deal.

“We have a duty to resolve the differences between the Congress and the Left parties in the interest of the nation,” he said at a function here on Saturday to mark the diamond jubilee of the Indian Union Muslim League.

Mr. Karunanidhi, who is meeting Left leaders in Chennai on Sunday, said he would go to New Delhi soon to find an amicable solution, and expressed the hope that his mission would “help save India.”

Appealing to all secular parties not to allow communal forces to gain the upper hand, he said if such forces came to power, issues such as construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya would crop up again, and the country would not be able to remain peaceful.