Chennai: Pained by continuing internal bickering in his party, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday made a fervent appeal for unity, saying he was grieved over the fact that there was enough squabbling in the ranks that would harm the party more than any external factor. With less than a year left for the next Lok Sabha polls, considered crucial for the DMK after being drubbed by arch-rival AIADMK in the 2011 assembly elections, Karunanidhi said he was aware that many senior party functionaries were at
each other's throat.
Holding that discipline was a key element in DMK ranks, he said as somebody who had been in politics for 70 years and having seen its nitty-gritty, he said the inner-party fighting and differences could be inimical to DMK's interests. "I am not ashamed to admit frankly that there are differences sparked by mutual charges, finding faults at each other and making allegations. I don't presume everyone is working with the intention of contributing to the party," the 88-year-old leader said in his most candid remarks so far....
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02:15 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi/Chennai: It is not just DMK chief M Karunanidhi's younger son and his heir apparent MK Stalin and his son Udayanidhi, but even the DMK chief's elder son and former central minister MK Alagiri allegedly used illegally imported cars. Now CNN-IBN exposes how a Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officer allegedly covered up the illegal car imports of Alagiri , Stalin and his son and how luxury import cars...
06:12 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Chennai: Dismissing speculations that he deliberately skipped the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) executive meeting on Monday, party chief M Karunanidhi's son MK Alagiri said he was unwell and therefore couldn't be a part of the gathering. "I wasn't feeling well and so I couldn't attend. It is not necessary for all leaders to attend all the meetings," he said. Sources, however, suggested that Alagiri is upset with younger brother MK...
05:14 PM, Mar 25, 2013
DMK chief Karunanidhi's son MK Alagiri skipped the party's executive meeting and left for Madurai on Monday. While sources say Alagiri is upset with younger brother MK Stalin, Karunanidhi's political heir, for reportedly pushing their father to withdraw support to the UPA, party leader Tiruchi Siva played it down saying he skipped the meeting because he may be unwell. ...
03:10 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Chennai: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) executive met on Monday to decide its next course of action, nearly a week after leaving the UPA government over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. The party has decided not to extend even outside support to UPA. DMK leader Tiruchi Shiva said, "We have withdrawn support to the UPA and have decided not to offer even outside support to the UPA. The meeting was...
12:37 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Chennai: All does not seem to be well within the DMK as party chief Karunanidhi's son MK Alagiri has skipped the executive meeting and has left for Madurai. Alagiri is reportedly upset with younger brother MK Stalin, Karunanidhi's political heir, for reportedly pushing their father to withdraw support to the UPA. Upset at not being consulted on the 'timing', Alagiri had also submitted his letter of resignation to the Prime...
09:00 AM, Mar 25, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday accepted the resignation of five Ministers belonging to DMK, which withdrew support to the UPA government on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. ...
01:20 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday accepted the resignations of five DMK ministers and forwarded them to President Pranab Mukherjee. ...
03:06 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Five Union ministers of the DMK, including party patriarch M Karunanidhi's son, MK Alagiri, submitted their resignations to the PM on Wednesday. The resignations by the ministers comes a day after the DMK withdrew support from the UPA government over its alleged "unwillingness" to push for a stronger resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN. ...
06:13 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday demanded that Union Fertiliser Minister and DMK nominee MK Alagiri be sacked in connection with the alleged fertiliser subsidy scam. ...
04:56 PM, Jan 24, 2013
wo days after Dravida Munnetra Kazagham chief M Karunanidhi's elder son and Union Minister MK Alagiri publicly objected to his father's statement where he named his younger son MK Stalin as the next chief of the DMK, the party chief made a clarification on Sunday. Karunanidhi said that while in his personal capacity he would endorse Stalin as the next party president, it was the party which will take the...
03:39 PM, Jan 06, 2013
Union minister MK Alagiri on Friday said that the DMK was not a mutt (stupid person) to appoint a successor to the party chief. ...
04:41 AM, Jan 06, 2013
DMK chief and Union minister M Karunanidhi's elder son MK Alagiri has reacted strongly to his father's naming younger brother MK Stalin as his successor. Speaking to reporters, Alagiri said the DMK is not a religious mutt, meaning that it's not up to the chief to name a successor. ...
01:55 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Hinting that younger son MK Stalin will be his heir, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Thursday perhaps laid to rest speculation on who will win the battle between the two brothers - Stalin and MK Alagiri - to lead the party after him. ...
03:22 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi was grilled by police in Tamil Nadu's Madurai in connection with illegal mining of granite by a company in which he was a director. ...
12:58 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Madurai police on Wednesday issued summons to Union Steel Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi once again in connection with the multi-crore granite mining scam. ...
01:43 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Chennai: Union Steel Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi on Friday surrendered at a Madurai court four days after being granted anticipatory bail in the granite scam case by the Madras High Court. Accompanied by a battery of advocates and DMK workers, he paid a personal security of Rs 10,000, while two persons stood as personal surety, at the court of Judicial Magistrate Jaykumar. The court directed him to appear...
11:05 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Madurai: A day after Union Minister MK Alagiri, elder son of DMK chief M Karunanidhi, expressed his unhappiness over neglect of his supporters in organisational posts, especially Youth Wing, his brother and DMK Treasurer MK Stalin said it only proved his oft-repeated stand that there was no space for influence in such appointments. "I have said several times that there is no (scope for) recommendation in the selection of party...
06:53 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Madurai: Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday kept in abeyance till November 2 a non-bailable warrant issued against Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi in an illegal granite quarrying case. Passing the order on a petition by Dayanidhi seeking quashing of the NBW issued by the Magistrate Court in Melur in the district, Justice T Mathivanan also directed state Advocate General Navaneetha Krishnan to file the...
08:40 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Chennai: The Rs 16,000 crore granite mining scam in Tamil Nadu is creating ripples among the high profile. Union Minister Alagiri's daughter-in-law Anusha appeared before the Madurai Police on Sunday. This comes days after the Madras High Court dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Anusha's husband Durai Dayanidhi in connection with the illegal granite quarrying case. Durai Dayanidhi is among the 60 people named in the FIR related to the...
01:07 PM, Oct 07, 2012
