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Maran exit triggers lobbying for cabinet berths

CHENNAI: Quiet backroom manoeuvrings are on in the DMK with several senior MPs lobbying for the berths vacated by Dayanidhi Maran and A Raja. Sources say that the DMK silently is hoping to be compensated for the two cabinet posts, but DMK chief M Karunanidhi will not make any move to seek more berths or reopen channels of communication with the Congress leadership, sources confirmed. Contrary to the DMK leaders nonchalance on the issue, party MPs are said to be cosying up to various power centres in the Karunanidhi family to wrangle a berth. Former Union minister and DMK parliamentary leader T R Baalu is said to be keen on a ministerial berth. Baalu has been the DMKs emissary in Delhi and its messenger boy, coordinating with the Congress leadership on various issues including the 2G spectrum controversy. DMK leaders are hoping for at least one cabinet and two minister of state posts. There are two vacancies now in the cabinet. One vacated by Raja and the other by Maran. Baalu, who was shipping minister in UPA-I, is quite keen on a cabinet berth. Presently, we have only MK Alagiri who is a cabinet minister. But Alagiri cannot lobby with Delhi on his own. Thalaivar has very little option other than choosing Baalu for the cabinet post, a former state minister told TOI.

                                                                                                               
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