<p>"Kanimozhi's mistake is my mistake. It was I who compelled her to become a shareholder in Kalaignar TV with a view to settle her a base for her future," he said addressing a public meeting in his native constituency.<br /><br />The 88-year-old former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister claimed that CBI, which is probing the case, had named his daughter, a Rajya Sabha member, since it had to hold someone accountable.<br /><br />"What was earlier estimated to be a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore (caused to the exchequer by the alleged wrongful policies of jailed former Telecom Minster A Raja), has now shrunk to Rs 30,000 crore. What affected the company (Kalaignar TV) affected Kanimozhi," he said.<br /><br />Kanimozhi, whom he said had taken all efforts for the party's victory in the April 13 Assembly polls, was "languishing in Tihar jail," in conditions not so favourable.<br /><br />"The temperature there is such that a flower will dry in 10 minutes if it is kept in the open," Karunanidhi, who had met his daughter recently there, said.<br /><br />He, however, said that his daughter was facing the situation and had asked his elder daughter Selvi to take care of him.<br /><br />"She said she was not worried and asked us not to worry as the Dravidian movement had given her the strength," he said.</p>.<p>Karunanidhi said before "sorrow destroys" him, he will do all in his might to save and nurture the Dravidian movement.<br /><br />Kanimozhi, a minority stake-holder in the channel, has been jailed over transaction of Rs 200 crore from 2G accused Shahid Balwa's firm, DB Realty.<br /><br />While the DMK patriarch started mentioning about his retirement from active politics, he quickly changed track and said that he would not quit from public life (as of now).<br />On his party's recent electoral loss at the hands of arch-rival AIADMK, he said this would allow the party to sharpen and strengthen the Dravidian ideals and policies.<br /><br />Charging a section of media with carrying reports targeting his family, Karunanidhi said he was aware of the conspiracy behind these, but warned nothing would destroy the Dravidian movement.<br /><br />Taking exception to Jayalalithaa government's proposal to scrap previous DMK regime's initiatives such as stopping construction on the new Assembly-Secretariat complex, he said that it was not an initiative meant against her.<br /><br />Though Jayalalithaa had proposed to shift the Assembly building elsewhere to Kotturpuram during her 2001-06 regime, DMK had, however, chosen the sprawling Omandurar Government Estate to house the new Legislative Assembly-Secretariat complex.<br /><br />"Fort St George is a British era construction and we wanted to run the Assembly in a building built by a government in independent India," he said. </p>
<p>"Kanimozhi's mistake is my mistake. It was I who compelled her to become a shareholder in Kalaignar TV with a view to settle her a base for her future," he said addressing a public meeting in his native constituency.<br /><br />The 88-year-old former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister claimed that CBI, which is probing the case, had named his daughter, a Rajya Sabha member, since it had to hold someone accountable.<br /><br />"What was earlier estimated to be a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore (caused to the exchequer by the alleged wrongful policies of jailed former Telecom Minster A Raja), has now shrunk to Rs 30,000 crore. What affected the company (Kalaignar TV) affected Kanimozhi," he said.<br /><br />Kanimozhi, whom he said had taken all efforts for the party's victory in the April 13 Assembly polls, was "languishing in Tihar jail," in conditions not so favourable.<br /><br />"The temperature there is such that a flower will dry in 10 minutes if it is kept in the open," Karunanidhi, who had met his daughter recently there, said.<br /><br />He, however, said that his daughter was facing the situation and had asked his elder daughter Selvi to take care of him.<br /><br />"She said she was not worried and asked us not to worry as the Dravidian movement had given her the strength," he said.</p>.<p>Karunanidhi said before "sorrow destroys" him, he will do all in his might to save and nurture the Dravidian movement.<br /><br />Kanimozhi, a minority stake-holder in the channel, has been jailed over transaction of Rs 200 crore from 2G accused Shahid Balwa's firm, DB Realty.<br /><br />While the DMK patriarch started mentioning about his retirement from active politics, he quickly changed track and said that he would not quit from public life (as of now).<br />On his party's recent electoral loss at the hands of arch-rival AIADMK, he said this would allow the party to sharpen and strengthen the Dravidian ideals and policies.<br /><br />Charging a section of media with carrying reports targeting his family, Karunanidhi said he was aware of the conspiracy behind these, but warned nothing would destroy the Dravidian movement.<br /><br />Taking exception to Jayalalithaa government's proposal to scrap previous DMK regime's initiatives such as stopping construction on the new Assembly-Secretariat complex, he said that it was not an initiative meant against her.<br /><br />Though Jayalalithaa had proposed to shift the Assembly building elsewhere to Kotturpuram during her 2001-06 regime, DMK had, however, chosen the sprawling Omandurar Government Estate to house the new Legislative Assembly-Secretariat complex.<br /><br />"Fort St George is a British era construction and we wanted to run the Assembly in a building built by a government in independent India," he said. </p>