Tamil Nadu Assembly polls | Stalin’s patient and long wait ends
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May 02, 2021 21:41 IST
DMK scion achieves the chief ministership after a step-by-step elevation in which he proved himself over four decades.
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DMK president M.K. Stalin. File
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DMK scion achieves the chief ministership after a step-by-step elevation in which he proved himself over four decades.
It has been a long haul for Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin. Indira Gandhi’s Emergency had catapulted him into active politics. It was a baptism by fire, when, in his early twenties, the newly married Stalin, was dragged away and jailed. His father, late Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) patriarch M. Karunanidhi, once remarked that Mr. Stalin was arrested only because he was his father’s son.
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Stalin said the Prime Minister should intervene immediately and direct the Ministries concerned to supply adequate Covaxin and Covishield vaccines. DMK president M.K. Stalin on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take a policy decision swiftly for universal vaccination and help Tamil Nadu tide over the present COVID-19 pandemic situation and ensure total protection for the people of the state.
In a letter in which the DMK MPs also signed, Mr Stalin said it was equally important to allow independent procurement of drugs, vaccines and medical equipment by state governments as the pandemic affected states could not wait every time for Centre’s nod to save the human lives.
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NewsX for the first time in the history of national television, India will witness the celebration of politics, history and culture like never before. The special program will track the ‘progress of Tamil Nadu from the eyes of youngsters’ in the backdrop of the highly anticipated Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. The profilic guests include C.A Bhavani Devi, the first Indian fencer to qualify for Olympics, Suseendhira Palanisamy, Research Fellow, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Madan Gowri, South India’s Biggest Youtuber amongst many others.
The high-octane Tamil Nadu Assembly elections will be held in a single phase on April 6 and Congress-DMK and BJP-AIADMK alliance are the major groups contesting against each other in the southern state. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president MK Stalin promised to visit the people of Tamil Nadu’s Salem district in all situations and not only during elections. Asserting issues of Tamil