CHENNAI: A week after the death of DMK president M Karunanidhi, his elder son MK Alagiri, who has been kept away from party affairs for the past four years, stirred a controversy over the party leadership stating that true loyalists of Kalaignar were with him despite his exclusion.
Talking to reporters at his father’s samadhi on Marina after paying homage to the late leader, Alagiri, along with family members and party supporters, said, “I have conveyed my grouses to my father. You don’t know what are my grouses. All the true loyalists of Kalaignar ( M Karunanidhi) across Tamil Nadu are only with me and they are supporting me. Future will give you the answer on this.”
Asked about the party's executive committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Alagiri said, “I don’t anything about it because I am not with the DMK now.”
To a question whether he would rejoin the DMK, he remarked, “I have conveyed to Kalaignar only about that,” indicating that the much-expected power struggle within the DMK has started.
An hour later, when asked about the outbursts of Alagiri at Karunanidhi's samadhi, J Anbazhagan, one of the confidantes of MK Stalin told reporters: “There is no need to respond to Alagiri because he is not with the DMK. No one in the party is in touch with Alagiri.”
DMK working president MK Stalin or the top leaders of the DMK including Durai Murugan are yet to react to the remarks made by Alagiri.