Late DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi’s statue was unveiled by Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday (May 29, 2022).
The statue made of bronze is 16-ft high and is placed on a 14-ft high pedestal. The statue has Karunanidhi wearing his distinctive glasses with the right hand raised signalling the DMK’s symbol (open palms depicting the rising sun).
The statue has been installed at the campus of the multi super specialty government hospital at Omandurar Estate in Chennai, a few hundred meters away from the place where the original one was vandalised 35 years ago in the wake of AIADMK founder M G Ramachandran’s death.
In light of this, the hashtag #StatueOfCorruption was trending on social media.
Netizens took to reminisce past incidents when the DMK patriarch who was a five-time Chief Minister was accused of corruption.
Statue of scientific corruption. #StatueOfCorruption pic.twitter.com/HkvGlNZwoI
— R O C K Y 👽 (@RageshRajan1990) May 28, 2022
#StatueOfCorruption
A scientist named Karuna….
He discovered invented corruption… pic.twitter.com/TNi1ZzLRwo— Akila S (@ArasiAkila) May 28, 2022
#StatueOfCorruption in a lying state😂😂 pic.twitter.com/tLjOA2E83f
— 🦁வேங்கை🇮🇳🚩 (@marattamilan) May 28, 2022
#StatueOfCorruption 😂 Got this in Suggession pic.twitter.com/aOivMdfOWT
— prakash duraisamy (@prakash__kd) May 28, 2022
The DMK under Karunanidhi is guilty of several other corruption charges and failures. The party was part of the biggest ever corruption case in the history of India – 2G spectrum case. Karunanidhi in order to save his seat, went soft on the UPA government headed by its alliance partner Congress, by organizing lip service protests while thousands of Tamils in Sri Lanka were killed in the civil war in Sri Lanka. He is said to have undertaken the ‘fastest fast’ by starting the fast after breakfast and ending it before lunch.
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