Maran's telephone exchange and Amma's jewels

BANGALORE, INDIA: On a day when Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa decided to wear jewels after a gap of fourteen years, opposition DMK got a  not-so-bright jewel in its crown of scams with a shocking report by 'The New Indian Express'  S Gurumurthy, who said that Dayanidhi Maran had literally built a telephone exchange at his Chennai residence with 323 telephone lines!

The revelation based on a CBI report comes at a time Maran's name is also slowly being part of the 2G scam, which is pet-named the mother of all scams, and DMK is facing many a political nemesis after it was routed in the Assembly elections.

Of course, the happiest person on earth to see one more DMK leader's name being dragged into the episode is Amma only, who wants the DMK to be vanished from the surface of the earth. The moment the news of Maran's alleged involvement in the 2G licensing episode made headlines Amma didn't waste any time in demanding his resignation, so was BJP which sees it as the duty of the opposition to demand the resignation of the corrupt.

The allegation is that Maran's official decisions as telecommunications minister had indirectly benefited his brother's company. Though Maran denied the allegations raised by Tehelka magazine, it seems that the 2G ghost will haunt him too, especially when DMK is literally a voiceless coalition partner in the centre. Already there are many DMK leaders are in the 2G soup, while the likes of A.Raja and Kanimozhi are having a 'non-commercial' break behind the bars.

The whole scandal has ultimately impacted the share price of Sun TV, as is the case of DMK in the political market.

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