New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) The Congress said Tuesday that its ties with the DMK were intact despite the electoral loss in Tamil Nadu and the arrest of DMK leaders in the 2G spectrum scam.

 
 Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday met former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi and said he discussed the reasons for the defeat of the DMK-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu and the spectrum scandal.
 
 Home Minister P. Chidambaram had met Karunanidhi Monday.
 
 Azad said party president Sonia Gandhi was concerned about Kanimozhi.
 
 "Our leader Sonia Gandhi is concerned because Kanimozhi ... a woman is in jail. It is a matter of concern. The fact is one cannot do anything."
 
 "We are taking stock of the situation..We are all concerned about Kanimozhi being inside jail," he said.
 
 The 87-year-old Karunanidhi was to fly back to Chennai Monday evening after meeting his daughter at the Tihar Jail but stayed back. He returned Tuesday.
 
 Azad said the arrest of Kanimozhi, a Rajya Sabha MP, would not have any impact on Congress-DMK relations but made it clear that the government would not interfere in the case.
 
 "All these goings on have no effect on the DMK-Congress alliance. In future also it will have no effect," he told reporters.
 
 "Karunanidhi is not just the (leader) of the DMK but we have a personal relation with him for the past 34 years. He is a man of political understanding, he knows well that the Supreme Court is monitoring and a special court is looking into it (2G spectrum case) and knows the government is not interfering in any case including the (Suresh) Kalmadi (CWG) case," he said.
 
 Congresss spokesman Manish Tewari said that meetings of its leaders with the DMK chief were in the nature of courtesy calls and added that Karunanidhi had been pained by the arrest of his daughter Kanimozhi in the 2G spectrum case.
 
 “Former chief minister of Tamil Nadu had come to meet his daughter in Delhi. He is also a father apart from being a political leader. One needs to understand the pain and keep in mind sensitivities... pain of a father needs to be understood," he said.  
 
 Congress MP Jayanthi Natarajan, who also met Karunanidhi, said that ties with the DMK remained strong.
 
 "The DMK has said they will fight out (the 2G case) legally. As DMK was an alliance partner, I paid a courtesy call," Natarajan told reporters.
 
 Karunandhi also met jailed former communications minister and DMK leader A. Raja and Kalaignar TV managing director Sharad Kumar, both accused in the 2G scam, in the Tihar Jail.