Chennai, Feb. 5 -- At a time when the Left is fighting back to the wall for electoral relevance across the country, the DMK government is bringing alive the father of communism, Karl Marx, by installing a statue of the late philosopher at the sprawling Connemara Public Library - State Museum campus in the heart of Chennai.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President MK Stalin, whose party is providing a lifeline to the two dominant left parties CPIand CPI(M) by ensuring two MPs each, is unveiling the statue on Friday.
Like his father, the late DMK Patriarch and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, Stalin too claims that the Dravidian ideology is akin tothe Communist ideology and that is why half of the DMK flag is red.
In September last, Mr Sta...