The new amma in Karunanidhi’s life<\/p>\n
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M Karunanidhi, said to be a hardcore atheist and who had on several occasions reprimanded party men for flirting with religion now seems to have no problems with spiritual leaders.<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago Karunanidhi shared the stage with godman Sathya Sai Baba and this time it was with spiritual guru Mata Amritanandamayi.<\/p>\n
So unlike Tamil Nadu’s political amma, former chief minister Jayalalitha, this amma has struck the right chord with the Chief Minister.<\/p>\n
“Mata Amritanandamayi was born in coastal Kerala and she is like a pearl that the sea gives us. A pearl who takes care of the needy around the world,”Karunanidhi says.<\/p>\n
The octogenarian Chief Minister had a battery of state and Central ministers at the function in Nagapattinam for tsunami victims.<\/p>\n
Karunanidhi now boasts of a different image, of a man who had once told his ministers that wearing a tika on their forehead was an insult to Tamil rationalist leader Periyar’s ideology.<\/p>\n
2 Feb 2007, Chennai
Moneycontrol.com
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