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Court set for final ruling on Karunanidhi burial, dismisses petitions against Marina site:

Court set for final ruling on Karunanidhi burial, dismisses petitions against Marina site:

The DMK is arguing that Karunanidhi should be given a burial site on the Marina Beach considering he has been Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu five times.
CHENNAI: Emotions are running high among cadres of the DMK in Tamil Nadu over the choice of burial site for their deceased leader, M Karunanidhi. The matter had started on the path to controversy even before the leader’s death had been formally announced. The Madras High Court is set to weigh in on the issue around 8 am on Wednesday.
The DMK contends that Karunanidhi should be buried on the iconic Marina Beach, where his fellow former Chief Ministers CN Annadurai, MG Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa are interred. All three of them were Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu at the time of their deaths, and arranging the space for their burial had not been an issue. The mausoleum complex is not only a prominent tourist attraction but also a point of focus of political energies multiple times a year.
The Tamil Nadu government, responding to a formal request from the DMK on Tuesday evening, had announced that in light of the legal question marks that have been raised even over the burial of then Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa at the Marina site the government would not be able to accommodate Karunanidhi there. It had offered a different two-acre site in a different place.
The DMK had then taken the matter to the Madras High Court. Acting Chief Justice Huluvadi G Ramesh had conducted a late-night hearing around 10:30 pm on Tuesday and set the second hearing for 8 am.
Meanwhile, Karunanidhi’s body is lying in state at the ceremonial Rajaji Hall for the public to pay their respects, even as his final resting place remains a bone of contention.
8 August 2018, 09:09 AM
TN Govt states in its counter-affidavit that DMK chief Karunanidhi himself didn’t allot land for former CM Janaki Ramachandran after understanding the protocol manual when Karunanidhi was the CM.
8 August 2018, 08:45 AM
Madras High Court has dismissed petitions filed by three activists against the construction of memorials on Marina Beach.
‘Traffic’ Ramaswamy, K Balu and Duraisamy had told the court on Tuesday night that they would be willing to withdraw their petitions.
8 August 2018, 08:32 AM
Madras High Court directs ‘Traffic’ Ramaswamy’s lawyer to file memorandum that he has no objection to bury Karunanidhi’s body at Marina Beach. Lawyer submits the memorandum to the Acting Chief Justice.
‘Traffic’ Ramaswamy is a prolific PIL activist who was among those who had filed a petition against the decision to bury Jayalalithaa at Marina Beach.
He had told the HC on Tuesday night that he was willing to withdraw his petition and that he had no obejction to Karunanidhi being buried at the Marina Beach mausoleum complex.
8 August 2018, 08:11 AM
Thousands throng to catch their final glimpse of Karunanidhi as his body lies in state.
Many raising slogans like ‘Marina vendum’, which means, ‘We want Marina’.
8 August 2018, 07:42 AM
8 August 2018, 07:05 AM
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Pannerselvam have paid their respects Karunanidhi at the Rajaji Hall.
The two sides are now locked in controversy and in court over the choice of a burial site for the decesased DMK chief.
8 August 2018, 06:59 AM
DMK leader blames BJP, RSS for denial of Marina burial site for Karunanidhi

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