DMK President MK Stalin filed his candidacy for the upcoming assembly elections in Tamil Nadu from the Kolathur constituency on Sunday. After winning the previous two elections, this will be the third time the DMK representative will run for the seat.
He beat AIADMK’s Saidai Duraisamy by a razor-thin margin in 2011. In 2016, he claimed a landslide victory over AIADMK’s JCD Prabhakar. Stalin stood for office in the Thousand Lights constituency prior to 2011. In four of the six occasions that he ran on a DMK ticket, Stalin managed to win.
On the other hand, Udhayanidhi Stalin, his son and the party’s youth wing secretary, has filed an application, expressing interest to run for the Chepauk-Triplicane constituency. He submitted his application a few days ago. If he is given a ticket, Udhayanidhi will be making his electoral debut, the Indian Express reported.
Meanwhile, M K Stalin on Monday sought to make light of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s allegation of corruption against his party, saying it was the BJP that “stands by corruption” by aligning with the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu. Ridiculing Stalin for speaking on corruption issues, Shah had at a rally in Villupuram on Sunday asked him to “look within,” asking “who did the 2G (spectrum allocation) scam” in which party MPs Kanimozhi and A Raja are accused.
The DMK was part of the Congress-led government when the lead party did “Rs 12 lakh crore” worth scams, he had said. On Monday, Stalin told reporters that earlier Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier spoken on similar lines, “now Amit Shah has spoken and tomorrow all BJP leaders coming from the Centre will only say the same thing.” “They held the hands of OPS (Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam) and EPS (CM K Palaniswami), who are steeped in corruption, commission and collection. That shows who stands by corruption,” he said in an apparent reference to Modi holding the hands of the two leaders at a government function here last month.
“Corruption, commission, collection” is an oft repeated statement by Stalin to target the ruling AIADMK over graft charges. Further, Stalin said seat-sharing talks in the DMK-led alliance have commenced from Sunday while the party manifesto was also getting ready.
A ‘special’ meeting will be held on March 7 at Tiruchirappalli by the party where he will release a 10-year “vision document” to make Tamil Nadu numero uno in all sectors in a decade, Stalin said.
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