Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi  on Friday admitted to a city hospital after he complained of severe neck and back pain.

Doctors attending on him at the Sri Ramachandra Medical College Hospital said he will need to spend at least a few days in the hospital as he needed complete rest.

Tamil Nadu Finance Minister K Anbazhagan has appealed to the public not to disturb the Chief Minister till he recovers completely.

The telephone tapping controversies continued to haunt the Tamil Nadu government with a minister being accused of influencing a top vigilance official over phone to help one of her relatives facing a corruption case.

Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy released a CD containing the ‘tapped’ phone conversation between Social Welfare Minister Poongothai and the Director of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption S K Upadhyaya.

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