Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister M.K. Alagiri is having a bad time — over Tamil. The decision of the Lok Sabha secretariat not to let him answer MPs’ questions in Tamil has left him so distraught that he told his father — DMK party chief M. Karunanidhi — that he wanted to be out of New Delhi and back in Tamil Nadu.
Nobody knows how this will play out, but Alagiri’s deputy, Srikant Jena, who has been sulking for not getting the cabinet rank, sees a chance of a possible promotion.
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