Chennai, May 26: DMK president M Karunanidhi today said he did not call on Congress President Sonia Gandhi during his visit to Delhi as it was ‘not appropriate’ to meet her when his daughter Kanimozhi, arrested in connection with the 2G scam, was in prison.
“There was an opportunity. There was time to meet Sonia Gandhi (but) since my daughter Kanimozhi is in jail, it was not appropriate for me to meet Gandhi and I avoided meeting her,” he told reporters here after chairing a DMK legislature meet.
He, however, added that senior Congress leaders, including Union Ministers P Chidambaram and Ghulam Nabi Azad had called on him (at the hotel where he was staying).
Azad, Congress in-charge of Tamil Nadu, had stated yesterday after meeting Karunanidhi that Kanimozhi’s arrest would not impact ties between the two parties but insisted that the government would not interfere in the case.