Dayanidhi, Kalanithi fail to meet Karunanidhi

There was high drama at the CIT Colony residence of Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi, when his estranged nephews Dayanidhi Maran and Kalanithi Maran tried to meet him on Tuesday afternoon, but were not given access.

While the immediate family maintained that they had nothing to do with the inability of the Marans to greet Mr. Karunanidhi on his birthday, sources said it was the Chief Minister’s elder son, M.K. Azhagiri, who insisted that there be no such meeting.

Right from the morning, there were people close to Mr. Azhagiri at the Gopalapuram residence waiting to see if the Marans would show up. They did not. Later, the sources said, the Chief Minister’s daughter, Selvi, advised the brothers to go to the CIT colony residence.

The first meeting after the estrangement — between Mr.Kalanithi and the Chief Minister — also took place at the CIT colony residence, though the household itself is not supportive of the Marans. “It is easy to barge into the CIT colony house because unlike the Gopalapuram House [which is the residence of the mother of Mr.Azhagiri], there is no one to stop a family insider,” one source said.