DMK: Point-blank politics

The DMK leaves the UPA ship, but won’t sink it, says a leading English daily. The weather-beaten ship is already nearing the shore. So it hardly matters whether it sails or sinks. Whether the DMK is a rat or not, as the headline implies, the fact remains that it has never been a natural ally of the Congress. For its politics has always been rooted in anti-Congressism. And DMK president M. Karunanidhi, who has been at the helm since the death of the party’s founder, C.N. Annadurai...

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