'Save Prabhakaran strategy' will back fire on Karunanidhi Says India's economic Times

India's influential Economic Times said that Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi's resignation drama intended for utilizing New Delhi's regional super power status to save the badly beleaguered, cornered and trapped LTTE chief Prabhakaran, which it said was an election gimmick, would backfire on the seasoned politician.

Describing Karunanidhi's very serious compromising position The Economic Times said in its current issue (October 21) that, "The DMK's difficulty in taking any dire step stems from insufficient numbers in the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly. To survive in power, the DMK with 96 MLAs needs the Congress support. It cannot afford to call a mid-term assembly polls on the Sri Lankan issue.