Tapes talk volumes about MK’s family: Jaya

The telephonic conversations corporate lobbyist Niira Radia had with former Union telecom minister A Raja, some industrialists and journalists "mainly show the first family of Tamil Nadu in their true colours," AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa charged on Friday.

In a statement, Jayalalithaa said: "In the brouhaha over the Rs1,76,379 crore 2-G spectrum scam perpetrated by A Raja of the DMK, an interesting side-show has gone largely unnoticed, at least in Tamil Nadu: the series of telephonic conversations between the various dramatis personae with Niira Radia, a liaison agent for large corporates like the Tatas and Ambanis, who is also a political wheeler-dealer, apparently wielding considerable extra-constitutional influence in the corridors of power."
"A conversation between Niira Radia and senior journalist Vir Sanghvi (who was apparently an interlocutor between the Karunanidhi family and the Congress leadership), shows the utter disdain the Central leadership has for its Tamil Nadu allies."
An excerpt from the tapes shows Sanghvi as saying: "As far as we are concerned, there are two wives, one brother, one sister, one nephew… It's all got very complicated for us… This is not a Congress-DMK problem. This is an internal DMK problem because they can't get their act together between all his wives and children and nephews…"
Jayalalithaa said Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi is on record demanding for herself the Environment portfolio, failing which she wants Health or [...]