Letters: Political bedfellows

This refers to the report "TN parties criticise Jaitley's meeting with Jayalalithaa" (January 20). The propriety of a Union finance minister meeting a politician convicted of corruption may be debatable. However, politicians such as M Karunanidhi and Anbumani Ramadoss questioning the same is akin to the pot calling the kettle black, what with the entire political career of these politicians founded on rank opportunism.

For instance, despite the 2G spectrum scandal, known as the mother of all scams (in terms of the loss caused to the exchequer), Karunanidhi had the temerity to field A Raja, the main accused in the scam, as a party candidate in the 2014 parliamentary elections. It is another matter that the Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) drew a blank in the elections, with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam emerging victorious. The DMK has also been a partner in the United Progressive Alliance and National Democratic Alliance governments, for the past several years, giving a convenient burial to all the so-called ideological differences. Politics indeed makes strange bedfellows, with the Indian voter being left with the Hobson's choice of electing the best of the worst.

V Jayaraman Chennai

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