Tamilnadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi claimed that he was like FIRE towards corruption.
In a statement issued in chennai on dec.1, 2010, he had detailed about his earnings from his youth days.
His family was having moderate income to the extent that others did burglaries at their house. His family was able to send him to nearby town, Thiruvarur for his high school education, he added.
He also informed that he got rs.500 as salary at the age of 18, from Modern theatres. Probably for the first time he had divulged an information that he had bought his Gopalapuram residence, where he still resides, for Rs,45,000.
``Apart from this house I have not acquired any wealth, either by purchase or by encroachemt'' he noted.
Whatever gifts he got in government functions were handed over to government and the gifts given at party functions were given to Anna arivalayam museum, he pointed out.
He had given long list of his earnings in cinema field and his donations.
At the end of the statement he claimed that he was like FIRE towards corruption.
``If my sons, relatives had acquired wealth through their hard work, it is their ability'' he said.
He also added that the statement was issued just as suo-motto explanation about his wealth, as many media reports claim that he was one among the wealthiest persons in Asia.
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