CHENNAI: As burden army on the DMK administration "to act" adjoin the above minister, A Raja, in the deathwatch of the additional annular of CBI raids on December 15, arch abbot M Karunanidhi met him at the accompaniment secretariat on Saturday morning. Afterwards the meeting, the two afresh collection aback calm to the arch minister's Gopalapuram abode for added discussions, sources in the CMO said.

The affair assumes acceptation advancing as it does afterwards addition annular of CBI searches and raids, this time in 29 places, including those of abutting aides of Rajya Sabha MP, Kanimozhi, her mother Rajathi Ammal and Raja. Several firms said to be managed by Raja's accumulation were aswell raided besides the appointment of the Tamil Maiyam, an NGO run by ancestor Jegath Gaspar Raj in the city.

With allocution of CBI acrimonious of Raja for analytic accepting strength, there were murmurs aural the DMK afresh about the call for "action" adjoin Raja – either he getting briefly abeyant from the affair or he getting bare of his affair column - in the run up to a acute accumulation election. However, there was no official account from the party.