Manohar said. "Get ready to become Chief Minister."
ParthaSarathy said his situation, "Selvarangan is more popular than me with party cadres and people"
"Don’t worry about them. People will believe what they see in the media. We can control the whole media. Like I said, only get the money ready to sway the MLAs to our side,” Manohar said quietly.
"Selvarangan?"
"He is sentimental. He will pray for Rajadurai's recovery. He will not think about anything else in his mind for sometime. ”
“ Uday is not like his father. He is willy and intelligent ”
"Even he won’t know Rajadurai will die for sure. Before he smells the trap, finish the matter in hand discreetly ”
“Then Rajathurai won't die immediately? ” RamaKrishna asked.
“He will not die immediately. Will be in intensive care. The doctors would give a report until we are ready, ”
RamaKrishna thought to himself, “He has thought and planned each and every step”
ParthaSarathy asked, “In return, should we help you in killing Karthi?” He asked because he was afraid that Manohar will ask something beyond his reach.
Manohar smiled mockingly.
"When we can bump off the Chief Minister itself, do you think we need your help to kill Karthi? Are you mocking us? We shall deal with Karthi afterwards. First let us talk about our service charge to make you Chief Minister.”
“How many crores?” asked ParthaSarathy.
“50-50 from your earnings regularly”
It took some time for RamaKrishna to close his open mouth. ParthaSarathy also looked like it was too much amount to ask for.
"Even if you give us half of your earnings regularly, you will have twice as much as you have earned till date”
ParthaSarathy looked at his uncle RamaKrishna. RamaKrishna nodded as if the account was correct. He could not help but look at the seriousness of Manohar.
"When we can't afford it?"
Manohar said indifferently.
"Another chief minister will die."
RamaKrishna said, “I asked just in case”
Manohar sai, “But I am serious”
ParthaSarathy said, “I thought your target was Karthi.”
"He is our target. But we have to think a lot about dealing with him. That's why I told we will deal with him later. Once we helped one to earn more, what is wrong in expecting the return favor? The business should be conducted with professional ethics.”
RamaKrishna slowly asked, "Then will you pay half the cost of buying MLAs?"
"No. The same goes for sending the Chief Minister to the hospital. Make the doctors to give regular updates, you do not have to pay anything for the cost of all this. Got it?"
As he had no choice but to say yes, ParthaSarathy said, “Yes”
Manohar said, “There are other clauses in the agreement”
RamaKrishna cried out in his mind, 'other clauses?' ParthaSarathy also looked at him as if what it was.
Manohar said. "No one should meet the master for any reason here afterwards"
RamaKrishna said aloud, "That’s right. If we meet him, that guy will know everything from our mind. It's not necessary”
ParthaSarathy asked. "What if he comes to visit us?"
Manohar said firmly, "He will not come on his own"
"Is that guy your enemy?" RamaKrishna asked. But Manohar did not think it necessary to answer him. He stood up to leave.
RamaKrishna looked at the photo in the table and asked Manohar.
“You told us we are friends. We also became partners in business. Giving these photos to us is the decent thing to do. Why don’t you give it to us?”
"These photos will help us to remain friends. It will not get out of hand as long as you are friends. Shall I leave?”
He is gone. The uncle and nephew sat in silence for a while with many thoughts. RamaKrishna took the photo with trembling hands.
"Looks like, these photos have been taken from the top angle. Karthi must have taken these photos. Nobody in their right mind will stay up there on that mountain top on the new moon day. He does all the magic work. How Manohar got these photos? Don’t know what happened then and what is happening today. I see serious trouble here.”
ParthaSarathy did not respond to uncle’s laments. Till we are not acting against them, the photos will not go out his hands and he believed that. His mind was fixed on another suspicion. Who can go inside despite the heavy security that exists for Rajadurai who is the Chief Minister. Even so, wouldn't it be more difficult to just kill oneself and send them to the hospital for intensive care without killing him? How will this guy succeed? Will it happen? What will happen if he gets caught up in that attempt? Trembled at the thought.
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Rajathurai did not get much sleep that night. Senthilnathan's information about RamaKrishna affected him deeply. As Senthilnathan said the person will definitely be involved if it is possible to get involved in any mischief. So far he received a lot of complaints on RamaKrishna. If a hired killer is involved, then it should be dealt immediately. It was scary to think if something had happened to Karthi. He could not determine whether ParthaSarathy had any role in this. Though clever, he knows that ParthaSarathy is not in league with Selvarangan. It is possible that this happened without his knowledge as the ParthaSarathy had gone abroad at the time of the incident. The question of whether it had probably happened with his knowledge did not let him to sleep. Senthilnathan was told to keep an eye on the case. He also called ParthaSarathy and told him to come to the party office tomorrow morning. A firm decision has to be taken regarding RamaKrishna.
It was as if someone had entered his room. Returned to see who. Saw no one. But it felt like someone was hiding there in the dark. The next moment something overpowered and bounded him. He was unable to move limbs. Little by little he began to lose consciousness.