Click to play videoNew Delhi: The buzz about the succession battle within the ruling DMK has gripped Tamil Nadu yet again with Chief Minister Karunanidhi announcing that there will be changes in the party's organisational setup in September.
The announcement is being seen as an indication that either of his sons M K Azhagiri or Stalin could be given greater responsibility in the party.
The succession talk intensified on Tuesday on Karunanidhi's 85th birthday when the Maran brothers – who fell out with the MK camp – showed up to greet the DMK patriarch.
While Stalin favours a patch-up with them, his elder brother Azhagiri told CNN-IBN that Karunanidhi refused to meet the Marans and is unlikely to “forgive” them.
However, news agency PTI reports Dayanidhi and Kalanidhi, who head the Sun Network, met Karunanidhi at his CIT colony residence and the meeting lasted for 10 minutes.
Emerging from the meeting, the brothers refused to speak to the media.
Dayanidhi was forced to quit as Union minister in May last year after his family-owned newspaper published a survey saying Karunanidhi's son M K Stalin is likely to succeed as political heir to the DMK patriarch.
The survey had claimed that majority of the respondents had said that Stalin would succeed his father and had shown his elder son Azhagiri, party's strong man in Southern districts, in poor light.
Dayanidhi was removed as Union Minister and a show cause notice served to him.
Kalanidhi had met M K Stalin, the younger son of Karunanidhi and a state minister, on his birthday giving rise to speculation that the two families might come together again.
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