Chennai, Jan 29- MK Alagiri, DMK chief M. Karunanidhi’s elder son who was suspended recently from the party for anti-party activities, said on Tuesday that all charges levelled against him by his father leading to his suspension are false.
In a press conference in Madurai, the DMK’s strongman from the southern districts said, “I’m shocked to hear the statement of the chief (Karunanidhi) statement. All charges against me are false.”
He said the DMK president should live long. “The party chief has said that I behaved in a way that hurt him. He could have told this after suspending me from the party, the party cadres know about me,” said Alagiri.
Saying he respected his father, Alagiri maintained that he had not done anything wrong and that he will always be with his loyalists.
“I have not told anything against my conscience,” Alagiri said, adding that it happened to be an opportune gift from the DMK on his birthday which falls on January 30.
A few hours after Alagiri’s press conference in Madurai, Stalin supporters burned effigies of Alagiri in Chennai. The rank and file of the party is behind Stalin, something Alagiri has found hard to digest.
Earlier on Tuesday, Karunanidhi told the media in Chennai that Alagiri was suspended for saying brother MK Stalin, the DMK’s heir apparent, would die in 3 months. “How can a father tolerate this? I don’t know why Alagiri has nurtured hatred against Stalin,” the DMK chief said.
Karunanidhi also hinted that Alagiri may not be reinstated soon. There were reports that Alagiri was not in favour of a DMK-DMDK tie-up. The DMK chief downplayed Alagiri’s remarks on that front. Stalin, however, had welcomed the tie-up with the actor Vijayakanth-led DMDK.
-Indiatoday
