Ramdas is a fascist to the core, and usually known in journalistic circles as Maramvatti (Treecutter) Ramdas, as his party made its mark when it cut hundreds of trees along the state highways as a mark of protest more than five years ago. Known to be an extortionist, a blackmailer, Ramdas is a politician of the worst kind. He runs his PMK party with an iron hand and like Karunanidhi, he along with his son Anbumani Ramdas, the Union Minister for Health in PM Manmohan Singh's Cabinet and wife, runs the party as a personal fiefdom tolerating no dissent. Ambumani ranks along with Balu, the Minister in Charge of Ports and Highways and the former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran and the current man holding the same portfolio as Maran, Raja, as the most corrupt Union Ministers in the Manmohan Singh Cabinet. One of the cleanest Prime Ministers in India has a bunch of thieves like Ambumani Ramdas and Balu in his cabinet who have siphoned off crores and crores under every pretext. Ramdas is now trying to ditch the Karunanidhi family run DMK in favour of Jayalalitha's AIADMK. He had put his son through the best English medium schools in chennai and now demands others should adopt Tamil medium so that they cannot leave Tamilnadu in search of better pastures. A chronically sick parochialist mind, Ramdas who like every other Tamilnadu politician has a "Dr" prefix to his name, is one of the wealthiest politicians in India. Tamilnadu will be saved only with politicians like Ramdas leave t
