Dhoti-clad PC as PM? "I am not so foolish..."

Responds to Karunanidhi's suggestion

GN Bureau | December 31, 2012



Finance minister P Chidambaram has scoffed DMk president M Karunanidhi's suggestion that he (Chidambaram) could be a prime ministerial candidate.

"I know my limitation and I stay within my limitation. That's my serious answer and on a lighter note, I know some of you think I am  foolish but I am not so foolish," Chidambaram said in reply to a question during his media interaction in Delhi.

On Saturday, Karunanidhi said there was support for Chidambaram’s candidature for the top post and he could thus fulfil the aspirations of the people of Tamil Nadu by implementing the Sethusamudram project.

“If implemented, his name will become part of Tamil Nadu’s history,” he said in the presence of Chidambaram, who was sitting among the audience in the Kamaraj Arangam in Chennai, the Hindu reported.

Recounting PC's rise in national politics, Karunanidhi said the applause of the audience at the mention of the remark made by other speakers that a “dhoti-clad Tamil should be the prime minister” indicated what the people expected of him.

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