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V Chitra, Gummidipoondi
Question: Is AIADMK's avoidance of the NDA at this stage an advantage or disadvantage to the regional party?
Answer: Keeping its options open till the presidential elections are over is certainly not a disadvantage to the AIADMK.
V Sunder, Chennai 33
Question: Don't you think that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's requesting the NDA to support the Congress-left candidate Pratibha Patil is proper since President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was elected unanimously last time?
Answer: I do not subscribe to this analogy. The NDA had sought prior approval all concerned before proposing Kalam's candidature, whereas the Congress-left combine has not done something similar this time.
S Rajagopalan , Chennai 17
Question: Can one say that Kalaingar is at the pinnacle of his popularity?
Answer: Kalaingar reached his zenith long ago.
N Sampath , Velayudhanpalayam
Question: What do you make of Sonia's statement that she has no love for political power?
Answer: How does one explain Sonia's approaching the President falsely claiming the support of 272 MPs demanding that she be made PM?
Padmini Balaraman, Coimbatore 38
Question: How would you differentiate between our friendly ties with China and the USA?
Answer: While the first is born out of worry, the latter is due to passion for pelf.
S Chokkalinga Adityan, Rosmiyapuram
Question: Kanimozhi's election to Rajya Sabha is purely a party decision, says Karunanidhi. Comment
Answer: He is correct because the DMK is a party led by a single family, which is headed by him.
R Mohan, Theni
Question: "I am pained by the fact that Kalaignar, who once opposed political giants like Periyar and Kamaraj, is being forced to face novices," says Minister Durai Murugan. Comment
Answer: It doesn't behove the Minister to place Kalaingar in a piquant situation by pointing out tongue in cheek that CM once opposed Periyar.
R Vanumamalai Perumal, Petharangapuram
Question: "The DMK has two universities – the first is Kalaingar and the other is Stalin," says Minister Poongothai. Comment
Answer: Why is the minister fishing in troubled waters? By the same comparison, does Azhagiri denote high school and Kanimozhi means kindergarten?
M Sampath, Velayudhanpalayam
Question: How do you view Karunanidhi's claim that Sethusamudram Project will enrich Tamil Nadu and turn it into a paradise?
Answer: This is yet another tall claim comparable with other promises like morphing the river turned gutter Cooum into a deodorant and turning Chennai into another Singapore.
N Kuppuswamy , Venkittapuram
Question: "Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje ought to be held responsibility for the communal unrest in that state because she was away abroad for 20 days," says Congress spokeswoman Jayanthi Natarajan. Comment
Answer: Certainly a better proposition than the possibility of Raje being blamed for triggering the riots if she had stayed home.
K Ramesh, Theerthamalai
Question: Nine of the ten 10 BJP MLAs of Arunachal Pradesh crossed over the Congress. Comment
Answer: BJP ought to keep its flock together in Goa and ensure that the exercise isn't repeated there.
S Abirami , Kayakkad
Question: Did you hear that CPI General Secretary Raja has no assets to his name?
Answer: This doesn't surprise me because most of the communists have a similar personal P&L account. I would, however, be surprised if leaders of other parties in equally pivotal positions have similar asset bases.
Padmini Balaraman, Coimbatore 38
Question: How would you differentiate between a politician who has just won an election and another who lost at the hustings?
Answer: The first is a robber who has been given the keys to a bank vault. The second has the unenviable task of starting to look for other pickings, which may not be easy at all.
Shanker Kamalanathan, Chennai 69
Question: "How can I strengthen Sonia's hands if Veerappa Moily continues to be partial to Union Minister GK Vasan?" asks TNCC president Krishnaswamy. Comment
Answer: It is obvious that Krishnaswamy has decided that he must lose his position at all costs.
G Kuppuswamy, Chennai 24
Question: Jayalalithaa had no opportunity of knowing how Karunanidhi and [the late] MGR regarded each other, says Electricity Minister Arcot Veerasamy. Comment
Answer: Well, Veerasamy could easily inform her that Karunanidhi regarded MGR as an outsider and a buffoon while the latter termed the former as an evil power-centre.
P Pon Rajapandi, Madurai 16
Question: Chief Minister Karunanidhi has advised Union Law Minister that the centre should consider legalising self-respect marriages on an all-India basis a la Tamil Nadu. Comment
Answer: The earlier system of conducting marriages before a registrar is cheaper because it doesn't involve a priest and ceremonies (including the speeches delivered by politicians in self-respect affairs). Will other states not raise this issue?
(Translated from Thuglak by TSV Hari)
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