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Viewing cable 08CHENNAI364, DMK CALLS OFF THREAT TO PULL SUPPORT FROM UPA OVER SRI

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08CHENNAI364 2008-11-03 05:11 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Consulate Chennai
R 030511Z NOV 08
FM AMCONSUL CHENNAI
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 1946
AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 
INFO ALL SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS CHENNAI 000364 
 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL PTER IN CE
SUBJECT:  DMK CALLS OFF THREAT TO PULL SUPPORT FROM UPA OVER SRI 
LANKA VIOLENCE 
 
REF: A) CHENNAI 362 B) CHENNAI 344 
 
1. (SBU) Summary:  Chief Minister Karunanidhi backed down from his 
threat to have Tamil Nadu's Members of Parliament resign if India 
did not force a ceasefire in Sri Lanka before October 28.  The 
resignation drama  has helped distract attention from  the DMK 
party's woes in advance of next years Parliamentary elections.  The 
political crisis has introduced some tension into the DMK/Congress 
relationship, which remains strong because of the parties' mutual 
interest in supporting one another.  End summary. 
 
Karunanidhi backs down 
------------- 
 
2. (SBU) On October 14, Tamil Nadu Members of Parliament agreed at 
an "all-party meeting" chaired by DMK Chief Minister Karunanidhi to 
resign en masse if the Government of India failed to force a 
ceasefire in Sri Lanka by October 28 (ref B).  But on October 26, 
two days before the deadline, Karunanidhi backed down after a visit 
from External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.  Mukherjee's visit, 
coupled with several other actions by the central government -- 
including summoning the Sri Lankan High Commissioner, engaging with 
Sri Lanka's Special Envoy, and agreeing to send humanitarian 
assistance to Sri Lanka's Tamils -- appear to have mollified 
Karunanidhi.  According to media reports, Karunanidhi said "he 
(Mukherjee) suggested we defer the decision (to resign) now; I gave 
him that assurance."  Karunanidhi also acknowledged that "this issue 
has been going on for 40 years; we cannot expect it to be resolved 
in four days."  At an event the next day inaugurating a road named 
after Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated by the Tamil 
Tigers in Chennai in 1991, Karunanidhi said that the DMK had no 
difference of opinion with the Union Government on the Sri Lanka 
issue. 
 
An idle threat by Karunanidhi? 
----------- 
 
3. (SBU) Observers from across the spectrum scoffed at the notion 
that Karunanidhi ever intended to actually allow the MPs to resign. 
Peter Alphonse, a Tamil Nadu Congress Party leader, told post that 
Karunanidhi would never have pulled the MPs from the UPA.  According 
to Alphonse, Karunanidhi wanted to show-up his political opponents 
who expected the all-party meeting to be a routine one issuing a 
typical, toothless hortatory resolution.  But, according to 
Alphonse, Karunanidhi never would have carried out the threat 
because the DMK has no option but to stick with the UPA and the 
Congress. 
 
4.  (SBU) Dayanidhi Maran, a DMK Member of Parliament who was 
stripped of his position as Union Minister for Information 
Technology and Telecommunications by his grand-uncle Karunanidhi in 
2007, agreed that the Chief Minister's resignation threat was an 
idle one.  Maran called it a "drama" staged by Karunanidhi, noting 
that he too tendered his resignation despite his estrangement from 
the Chief Minister.  Maran said that Karunanidhi's main objective 
was to distract attention from the state's recent power outages, 
which have increased anger against the incumbent government to an 
all-time high. 
 
A fissure in strong DMK/Congress relationship? 
----------- 
 
5. (SBU) The resignation threat has put stress on an otherwise 
strong relationship between the DMK and Congress.  At the local 
level, Alphonse said the Tamil Nadu Congress was irritated that 
Karunanidhi appeared to be slipping back into his past tendency to 
be "soft" on the terrorist Tamil Tigers and the small Tamil Nadu 
political parties that support them.  "We were all afraid that 
Karunanidhi fell into the trap of the small pro-LTTE parties.  They 
were pushing him to take an aggressive stand on this issue by 
playing on his projected image of the father of world Tamils."  That 
said, Alphonse said the DMK and Karunanidhi were no longer soft on 
the Tamil Tigers after having been "burned" politically by popular 
revulsion against the Rajiv Gandhi assassination. 
 
6.  (SBU) Maran claimed Karunanidhi's attempt at "blackmail" has 
alienated the Congress high command, especially Sonia Gandhi. 
According to Maran, who despite having an axe to grind with 
Karunanidhi remains publicly loyal to the Chief Minister, Congress 
"will carry this grudge and retaliate at the right time."  As 
evidence of the hurt  feelings, Maran alleged that Sonia Gandhi 
recently refused to meet with Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi, who 
is a DMK Member of Parliament.  Maran also said that a faction of 
the Congress Party leadership, including Rahul Gandhi, wishes to see 
Tamil Tiger chief Prabhakran dead in retaliation for killing Rajiv 
Gandhi, which drives a wedge between Congress and the DMK over Sri 
Lanka. 
 
7. (SBU) Comment: Karunanidhi's DMK and Congress are bound together 
by mutual self-interest.  Karunanidhi needs Congress to remain Chief 
Minister of Tamil Nadu and Congress relies on the DMK to keep the 
UPA in power in New Delhi.  As a result, it is no surprise that the 
political drama Karunanidhi generated quietly concluded with no 
resignations after the Indian government took sufficient steps to 
give him enough political cover to save face.  Despite the posturing 
from state-level politicians and the influential Tamil film 
industry, the episode stands out mostly for what we did not see. 
Although Karunanidhi has been criticized by political opponents for 
not taking an even stronger stance with the central government over 
Sri Lanka, those opponents do not seem to be getting much traction. 
 Support for the Sri Lankan Tamils has not become a burning issue 
with the public in Tamil Nadu.  The DMK's much-hyped "human chain" 
in solidarity with the island's Tamils saw anemic participation, and 
the arrest of politicians supportive of the Tamil Tigers passed 
without any outpouring of support for the cause.  The legacy of 
revulsion over Rajiv Gandhi's assassination continues to loom large 
over Tamil Nadu. 
 
SIMKIN