'MK was against Kani's entry into politics'

By G Saravanan

Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on Sept 04, 2011:

Source:http://expressbuzz.com/states/tamilnadu/mk-was-against-kanis-entry-into-politics/310563.html

CHENNAI: The former US consul general Dennis T Hopper in a cable to sent from the US Consulate in Chennai to the Wikileaks in June 2008 has quoted senior strategist of the Congress Siva Prakasam as saying that current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, would be a bad candidate, as “he is essentially a bureaucrat and he will bear the brunt of popular anger at the price rise.”

The cable further revealed that Prakasam had told Hopper that the then Union Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh had called on Karunanidhi in Chennai prior to the LS Elections, suggesting that (Arjun) Singh had sought Karunanidhi’s support for his bid to be the (Prime Ministerial) candidate.

Hopper said in a confidential cable quoting Prakasam that DMK patriarch Karunanidhi did not want to bring his daughter Kanimozhi (the daughter of the then Chief Minister’s second wife) into politics but was forced to give her a seat in Parliament last year at the behest of her mother, who was jealous of the political power of the sons born to the first wife.