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They all said – “it will be M Karunanidhi’s last tenure as the CM, and before his tenure gets over there will be major misunderstandings between the siblings. Later DMK would struggle to get a leader to take the party forward.” “A re-election is possible, and change in reign is possible too before 5-year tenure period.” (Of course there is no evidence at my end to prove this – it was just a one to one talk with the astrologers, and I don’t want to name them and put them in trouble from Stalin’s people or Azhagiri’s people).

And what did happen. Dinakaran (newspaper) poll did the mishap. The poll stated Stalin could be the successor. Azhagiri’s people got pissed off and burnt the newspaper office killing 3 innocent people in the process. Dayanadi Maran, the ex Central Minister for Telecom, refused to attend the 50th year celebration of Karunanidhi in assembly if immediate action was not taken against Azhagiri.

Sun TV, owned by Kalanidhi Maran, were not allowed to cover the gala function, which was attended by Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi and even my favourite leader Lalu Prasad Yadav. Dayanidhi Maran was lifted from his seat and Raja was made the new central minister for Telecom! And we call it democracy – where personal favours play a major role in Indian politics!

Though this problem looks very miniscule today, and an immediate temporary solution was taken by making Dayanidhi Maran the scapegoat. This particular event surely will be one of the main occurrences to shape the future of DMK and Tamil Nadu politics in the days to come.

And what my friend astrologers had stated has already started to ring bell in my mind!