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Pioneer.com
Akhilesh Suman | New Delhi
... tell Karunanidhi; Kanimozhi's Cabinet entry postponed
DMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, who was in Delhi for the past three days, returned disappointed to Chennai on Friday after both <b>Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat could not assure him on the stability of the UPA Government</b>.   

The cloud of uncertainty hovering over the longevity of the UPA Government has come in the way of Karunanidhi's efforts to get his daughter Kanimozhi inducted in the Union Cabinet.

Sources close to the DMK patriarch told The Pioneer<b> that Karunanidhi wanted his daughter to be inducted in the Cabinet provided it was going to last its full term.</b>

The DMK chief who came to Delhi to attend the National Development Council meeting on Wednesday, met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi along with his wife Rajathi Ammal.

According to sources, in the meeting, Karunanidhi touched upon the case of induction of Kanimozhi in the Union Cabinet in case the Government was going to be stable.

But he got no firm assurance from the Congress president on either of the issues, sources said.

<b>Later in the day, senior Congress leaders Arjun Singh and Sushil Kumar Shinde called on Karunanidhi at Tamil Nadu House and urged him to persuade Prakash Karat to ensure stability of the Government in view of the standoff on the India-US nuclear deal.

Subsequently, when Karat went to see the wheel- chaired Chief Minister in the Tamil Nadu House, the issue of nuclear agreement was discussed, but sources said Karat disappointed Karunanidhi by reiterating his party's stand</b>.
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