Ready to accept Stalin as DMK chief if reinducted into party: Alagiri
India | Aug 30, 2018, 03:13 PM ISTKarunanidhi had expelled Alagiri and his supporters from the party in 2014.
Karunanidhi had expelled Alagiri and his supporters from the party in 2014.
"The Union government is trying to destabilise judiciary, selection of governors. All this has dealt a blow to the secular principle," Stalin said in his first speech as DMK chief.
However, Stalin's elevation is facing a stiff resistance from late DMK president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi's other son MK Alagiri
He will be the second President of the party, a post which was held by his father Karunanidhi for 49 long years.
Earlier on August 13, Alagiri had laimed that all loyal party workers are with him and hit out at Stalin, accusing him of blocking his return to the party.
Stalin's remarks come at a time when Alagiri, expelled by DMK patriarch and their father M Karunanidhi in 2014 at the height of his fight with Stalin over establishing supremacy in Tamil Nadu’s main opposition party, has raised a banner of revolt.
Alagiri visited Karunanidhi's memorial at Chennai's Marina beach on Monday. Talking to reporters later, Alagiri asserted that "true relatives" and supporters of his father are with his side.
The party said the award will be a real tribute to the late Tamil Nadu leader's outstanding and exemplary work which had left an indelible mark in history. DMK's Tiruchi Shiva dubbed Karunanidhi the "tallest leader of the country and a Dravidian stalwart".
Karunanidhi was buried after an unsavoury courtroom battle that his party won to secure for him the final resting place at Marina Beach, a Chennai landmark.
Paying homage to his father, Stalin penned an emotional poem for Karunanidhi, who breathed his last at Chennai's Kauvery Hospital on Tuesday (August 7) evening.
The mortal remains of Karunanidhi has been laid to rest at Marina Beach.
Karunanidhi, a doyen of Tamil Nadu and Indian politics, died on Tuesday evening at Kauvery Hospital in Chennai. He was 94.
M Karunanidhi has won 12 assembly elections and was elected as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu five times.
Karunanidhi served as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for five separate terms in the 1969-2011 period.
DMK president M Karunanidhi passed away at 94 on Tuesday.
On July 31, the hospital said Karunanidhi will have to be remain warded for an extended period owing to age related health issues including altered liver function.
"He was resuscitated and stabilised in the ICU (intensive care unit) and managed by a team of doctors and nurses," the statement said.
“I wanted to come and see Karunanidhiji and stand with him. I met him. He is fine and stable” Rahul Gandhi told media persons after visiting Karunanidhi.
A statement issued by the hospital said that Karunanidhi's condition is now stable and he is being "treated and monitored by a panel of expert doctors."
Karunanidhi, 94, is currently undergoing treatment for fever due to Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) with intravenous antibiotics and fluids.
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