‘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 is the second consecutive year that the DMK and its allies have skipped the event at Raj Bhavan, underscoring the widening rift between the state government and the Governor.
Addressing a gathering of the party's women wing here, Stalin said that nearly 3,000 people have been injured in the BJP-ruled Manipur, and around one lakh people have moved out.
Leading the state's observance of the Language Martyrs’ Day, Stalin visited the Thalamuthu-Natarasan Memorial at Moolakothalam in Chennai to honour the martyrs of the language struggle.
The Tamil Nadu chief minister said, "It is the tradition of the Tamil Nadu legislature to sing the ‘Thamizh Thai Vazhthu’ (Invocation to Mother Tamil) before the commencement of the Governor’s address and towards the end, play the national anthem."
With this, Tamil Nadu has joined the list of Opposition-rules states like Punjab, Telangana, and Karnataka which have passed resolutions against the VB-G RAM G Act, alleging that the new model sounded a death knell for the programme.
