Chennai sources have stated that there is ample space for a new political party to emerge as existing political parties are family owned enterprises and have shut their doors to the new generation of aspiring leaders, said former Union finance minister P Chidambaram's sonson Karti Chidambaram, when speaking at a forum called Generation 67 (G67). The meeting was organized to commemorate 50 years of Dravidian rule in Tamil Nadu.
Karti had stated that "Most of the regional and national parties, including Congress, have become private family properties and are beyond redemption. Thus, a newcomer who is interested in joining politics will not fit into any of these parties as he would have to praise the head or other leaders in the party". Karti's G67 shot into limelight in April 2015 when he organized a meeting to take on then TNCC chief E V K S Elangovan.
Meanwhile Elangovan promptly slapped a show cause notice on
him for "anti-party activity and groupism". "Has any political
party invited people like Google CEO Sundar Pichai or an IIT topper to contest
in elections? Whether it is Congress, BJP, DMK, AIADMK or any other political
party in the North, all are family-controlled and an outsider has no
chance".
When stating that G67 is neither a forum nor a political party in the making, he said when Donald Trump can become President of US within a short period, anything can happen in Tamil Nadu too. After the Marina protests it is Neduvasal against extraction of hydrocarbon. In both these protests, people did not believe political parties to put forward their demands. It was their mobile phones which made people assemble at the designated place and political parties tried to tag on with their protests.
