‘Toppling Vijay-led TVK govt not our intention’: DMK clarifies Stalin remarks
Senior DMK leader Thangam Thennarasu claimed that Stalin's remarks on the future of the Vijay-led government had been misrepresented.
Senior DMK leader Thangam Thennarasu claimed that Stalin's remarks on the future of the Vijay-led government had been misrepresented.
Ahead of the floor test to prove majority in the Assembly, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president on Monday walked the extra mile to meet his predecessor and DMK president MK Stalin at the latter’s residence, heralding a new political culture in the state.
Actor Rajinikanth met DMK president M K Stalin at his residence in Chennai soon after the party’s disappointing performance in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. The unexpected visit has triggered interest.
Even as the DMK finds it difficult to digest the defeat at the hands of a debutant, Vijay, in the just-concluded assembly election, party president MK Stalin, in a bid to lift the morale of the rank and file of the party pointed out that the loss was of a meagre 3.52 per cent of votes and that the Dravidian major would bounce back to power.
The resignation comes against the backdrop of a major political shift in the state. The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), led by actor-turned-politician Vijay, emerged as the single largest party, securing 107 seats in the 234-member assembly, just 11 short of the majority mark. The DMK, which had been in power, was reduced to 59 seats, marking a sharp decline.
This was a direct fallout of Chakravarty’s recent post on ‘X’, in which he punctured the MK Stalin-led DMK government's claims about Tamil Nadu's financial health.
Describing Tamil Nadu as a distinct place of its own, Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Friday said communal harmony and peace in the state are what rankle the BJP the most, but the saffron party’s attempts at getting a foothold in the Dravidian land would remain a pipe dream so long as he is there.
The Chief Minister, describing the Tamil Vs Sanskrit North as a 2000-year-old war, made it clear that the DMK government was making every effort to keep aloft Tamil antiquity and pride.
Slamming the principal Opposition AIADMK over its studied silence on the Modi government rechristening of the MGNREGA and abdicating financial responsibility for the rural employment programme, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Wednesday asked whether the party would support it in total subservience to the BJP.
While extending solidarity with the Congress leadership, Stalin accused the BJP of being ‘hell-bent on hounding the Gandhi family’.
