: Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 7:29 PM IST 'Anti-national': Subramanian Swamy writes to President Kovind opposing MK Stalin's plea to release 7 convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case File Photo Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday wrote a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind and has oppossed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin's plea to release seven convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Stalin, in his letter to the President, had asked to remit the life sentence of seven convicts. "These seven persons have already suffered untold hardship and agony in the past three decades and have paid a heavy price. There has already been an inordinate delay in the consideration of their pleas for remission. In the present circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, courts are also recognising the need to decongest prisons," the Tamil Nadu CM said. "The majority of the political parties in Tamil Nadu have been requesting for the remission of the remainder of their sentence and for immediate release of all the seven convicts as they have been incarcerated for about three decades. It is also the will of the people of Tamil Nadu," he added.