2G scam: TN CM draws a metaphor with ‘Bagasura’

Recalling days when he watched silent movies in his home town Tiruvarur,the Chief Minister likened the people’s mentality to that of the audience of such movies who believed the narrator who said that the mouth of Bagasura,a demon in Hindu mythology,could be 30,000 miles long.

DMK leader and former Telecom Minister A Raja had resigned on November 14 in the wake of the CAG’s report that the rates at which 2G spectrum was allotted resulted in a loss to the exchequer to the tune of Rs 1.76 lakh crore.

The chief minister said he was running a government for the welfare of the poor,since he was born in a poor family.

“Would I have thought about the poor,if I was born with a silver spoon?” he asked in an apparent reference to AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa’s remarks that he was one of the wealthiest persons in Asia.

He was addressing a function here last night to release audio cassettes of a movie,whose story was written by him.