It’s once again time for many eyebrows in Tamilnadu’s political circles to remain raised. For, exactly a week after the sitting Kovilpatti MLA Radhakrishan, belonging to the AIADMK, met Chief M Karunanidhi, his Jayamkondam counterpart K Rajendran repeated the act today.

The AIADMK legislator, who is also the Jayamkondam union secretary of ‘Amma Peravai’, one of the important wings of the main opposition party, called on Karunandhi today and presented him a ‘memorandum to take steps to improve infrastructure in his constituency’.

And he also claimed that he had met the Chief Minister as his ‘conscience pricked’ him since he (Radhakrishnan) was unable to do anything for the welfare of his constituency ever since he became an MLA four years ago.

‘I don’t want to be a puppet legislator. I want to do some good to the people who had elected me. Hence I had met the Chief Minister requesting him to take immediate steps to improve facilities in my constituency. I am hopeful that good things will happen soon,’ he told reporters, after meeting Karunanidhi.

Hitting out at his party supremo J Jayalalithaa, Rajendran said, ‘Only Rs 775 was given per tonne of sugarcane when she was in rule. But the Chief Minister has now increased it to Rs 1,550, which is higher than the price fixed by the Central government. This is among the many good steps being taken by the present regime for the welfare of the people. But they (AIADMK leadership) have announced an agitation for sugarcane farmers to cheat the people.’

Union Minister for Information Technology and Communications A Raja and Perambalur district DMK secretary S S Sivasankar were present when Rajendran met Karunanidhi. The Chief Minister has assured Rajendran that the ‘needful’ will be done for the growth of his constituency, said a press release.

On Friday last, Kovilpatti MLA Radhakrishan called on Karunanidhi in Chennai after he met Union Minister and DMK organising secretary (south) M K Alagiri in Madurai.

He too presented a memorandum to ‘improve basic infrastructure in his constituency’. Speaking to reporters, Radhakrishnan said he was ready to face the consequences, if his party leadership wanted to take action against him for meeting a leader of their archrival organisation. And he was removed on the same day from the post of the secretary of Jayalalithaa Peravai.