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Message: <blockquote data-quote="life" data-source="post: 4428397" data-attributes="member: 6501">Karunandihi clean bowls rivals, goes on indefinite fast demanding ceasefire in LankaMon, 2009-04-27 11:55By M Rama Rao, India Editor, Asian TribuneNew Delhi, 27 April (Asiantribune.com): In a surpriseKarunanidhi begins indefinite fast move, DMK patriarch Muthavel Karunanidhi (84) has gone on an indefinite fast Monday morning in Chennai. His demand - immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka's troubled North. His son Azhagiri started a fast in Madurai.'Let me one of Rajapaksa's victims', he told reporters as he drove from his home to the memorial for late C N Annadurai near the Marina beach, where he started his fast in the presence of senior party colleagues.The DMK leader asked party cadres not to emulate his example. ‘No need for you to observe fast along with me’, he said. ‘It is my decision and I do not want others to join’.And declared ‘This (indefinite fast) is my sacrifice on behalf of all Tamils’, Karunanidhi said amid concerns over his health. He had undergone a major surgery for his back pain recently.By his move, Karunanidhi’s has virtually stolen the thunder from his bete noire Jayalalithaa Jayaram, AIADMK chief, who has come to centre stage of Dravidian politics by declaring that she would strive to get Eelam for Lanka Tamils if her party is voted in all the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies next month.The DMK leader has been cornered in a manner of speaking in recent weeks with opposition accusing of failing to ensure ceasefire in Sri Lanka.On hearing about his fast, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh telephoned Karunanidhi, who received the call sitting in a wheel chair. What the two leaders discussed is not immediately known.Huge crowds of DMK supporters have gathered at the fast site.Daughter Kanimozhi, grand nephew Kalanidhi Maran, party seniors, T R Baalu and Arcot Veeraswamy and a host of DMK leaders are by his side. So are his two wives Dayalu and Rajathi.-Asian Tribune-</blockquote>

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