trichy the 47km thanjavurpattukottai railway line via orathanadu and the 42km mannargudipattukottai rail project for which a survey is being conducted appear to have become the matter of a tussle between two dmk leaders while t r baalu mp and railway standing committee chairman is said to have been instrumental in getting the projects cleared union minister of state for finance s s palanimanickam told a hurriedly held media conference on saturday that baalu was unnecessarily interfering in his constituency this is the first time palanimanickam who represents the thanjavur parliamentary constituency has openly come out against baalu for going against the party tradition of sticking to ones turf there are lots of problems in his sriperumbudur constituency let him resolve them first before coming here palani manickam said he also said the sriperumbudur mp was trying to taking credit for small projects instead of concentrating on the ram sethu the pet project of party chief m karunanidhi palanimanickam said he was forced to make this statement as he could no longer tolerate the interference it is widely perceived that baalu is pitching for the thanjavur parliament seat in the 2014 election as he has newlydeveloped business interests there and his son t r b rajaa is the mla of mannargudi which comes within the thanjavur parliamentary constituency palanimanickam said baalus familyowned distillery project at vadaseri in thanjavur district was opposed by locals who feared it would create environmental problems i do not know what goes on in his baalus mind but if need be i will jump on to the protesters bandwagon if he does not mend his ways manickam said manickam alleged that baalu was eyeing every rail project with the singleminded aim of enriching his business interests palanimanickams charges made at the sudden media conference have already stirred a hornets nest within the party