DMK demands Bharat Ratna for M Karunanidhi
(WorldNews India)

The DMK on Friday demanded the government to posthumously confer the highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, for its party patriarch M Karunanidhi. Several members from the opposition bench supported this. Raising the demand, party MP Tiruchi Siva said the award will be a real tribute to the late Tamil Nadu leader`s exemplary work and was the `tallest leader of the country and a Dravidian stalwart.` `He lived five years short of a century, out of which he contributed 80 years to the public life, fighting for the cause of the downtrodden, backward and the suppressed people...He was an...