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This is an archive article published on December 16, 2010

DMK will come out clean,no strains in ties with Cong: Kanimozhi

She continues to say the law has to take its own course. It is a process to prove us not guilty.

DMK MP Kanimozhi on Thursday said her party will come out clean in the CBI probe into the 2G spectrum issue and voiced confidence that the ties with the Congress will not come under strain on the issue.

“The law has to take its own course. It is a process to prove us not guilty. Definitely we will come out clean,” Kanimozhi,who is the daughter of DMK chief M Karunanidhi,told reporters here,a day after CBI conducted raids against her associates and those close to ex-telecom minister A Raja.

Asserting that DMK was open to the ongoing probe,she denied any strain in ties with the Congress party.

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“No strains at all…. I am sure together we will prove that nothing wrong is going on,” she said replying to a question whether the developments had affected ties with the Congress.

Kanimozhi denied allegations that her mother Rajathi Ammal owned Royal Enterprises,a furniture mart,had purchased prime land on arterial Anna road,saying “the property was owned by a private party and not by Tatas,as reported in some media.

“One former employee of the furniture mart,Saravanan acted as an intermediary and the property was sold to a Malaysian businessman. My family has no connection in the deal,” she said.

In a crackdown yesterday as part of the 2G spectrum scam probe,CBI searched 34 offices and residences of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia,former TRAI Chairman Pradip Baijal,siblings of Raja and an NGO linked to Kanimozhi and claimed to have recovered several incriminating documents.

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The premises of Kamaraj,Associate Editor of Tamil magazine ‘Nakkeran’ in Chennai,Raja’s brother and sister near Tiruchirappalli and Tamil Maiyam,an NGO in which Kanimozhi,is on the Board of Directors were among those searched.

The investigating agency also swooped down on the premises of Raja’s auditor Subramanyam and also auditor of Kanimozhi’s mother.

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