Disqualification move 'blatantly partisan', nothing can save sinking ship : PC

Chennai, Sep 19: Senior Congress leader and former Union Home and Finance Minister P Chidambaram today termed as 'blatantly partisan', Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal's decision to disqualify 18 rebel AIADMK MLAs and said nothing could save the sinking ship. Mr Chidambaram, who is also a Rajya Sabha member, said the Tamil Nadu Politics was 'tragi-comedy'. The Speaker's decision to disqualify MMLAs was to help the minority Tamil Nadu government, he added. Mr Chidambaram tweeted: 'Great betrayal: TN Govt should go on the sole ground it callously delayed moving SC for additional 19% seats for OBC'. 'Speaker's decision to disqualify MLAs blatantly partisan and to help minority TN Govt. Nothing can save sinking ship', he added. In another tweet, he said '18 MLAs disqualified to manufacture a majority for paralysed TN Govt. TN is theatre of the absurd'. 'If TN Speaker is correct, no elected leader of a legislature party can be changed by dissenting MLAs! Once elected, CM for 5 years!', he added. Mr Chidambaram, in yet another tweet said, 'Governor requested to act. He did not! Speaker requested to observe restraint. He acted! TN politics is tragi-comedy'. UNI