M K Stalin

The state department officials have been told to take up the issue with the Union government and implement it expeditiously.

The sweeping reforms were not new education policy but "a glossy coat on the old oppressive Manusmriti," he alleged.

Whether to extend the lockdown or relaxing the curbs, the Centre and the state government should announce the decision "without any delay" in the interest of the public, DMK President M K Stalin said.

Presiding over a function to celebrate the 96th birth anniversary of his father and DMK patriarch, late M Karunanidhi here, Stalin said in the absence of such an explanation, Tamil Nadu will witness a massive agitation on the lines of the 1965 stir to oppose Hindi.

Amid reports that Gandhi was firm on quitting, Stalin spoke to the Congress top leader over phone and 'appealed to him to give up the idea of resigning as party president', the DMK said here.

The ruling party made a representation to the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Satyabrata Sahoo, alleging that Stalin was making such remarks against the Commission.

Election 2019 is the first in the state without the two Dravidian stalwarts and both the parties are slugging it out to continue their legacy, even as the likes of Kamal Haasan and T T V Dhinakaran plan to play spoilsport.

Hitting the campaign trail here in the Cauvery delta heartland after announcing his party candidates on March 17, Stalin announced crop loan waiver for all sections of farmers and not only small and marginal sections.

Stalin was admitted to the hospital late last night, a press statement from Apollo Hospitals here said.

"With the DMK and its allies having a strength 98 MLAs in the Assembly and the ruling party's 21 dissenting legislators, the AIADMK government, led by K Palaniswami, has lost its majority in the House," he told a public meeting here last night.

Refuting AIADMK's allegation that it was aiding Chief Minister O Panneerselvam in his revolt against his party's leadership, DMK today said its support to him was issue-based.

Newly appointed DMK working President M K Stalin today led a delegation of party leaders to meet Chief Minister O Panneerselvam at the secretariat, where they discussed various issues.

In a series of tweets, he also hailed her as an "iconic and courageous leader." "This is an irreparable loss to the people of Tamil Nadu.

DMK Treasurer and Opposition leader in the Tamil Nadu Assembly M K Stalin has convened an all-party meeting here on October 25 to discuss the Cauvery issue.

Meanwhile, a youth who had set himself on fire over the Cauvery issue yesterday, succumbed to injuries, police said.

DMK tresurer and party chief M Karunanidhi's son M K Stalin today left for New Delhi.

DMK not bothered by probe into irregularities in new complex