Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(DMK), the main Opposition party in Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday unanimously elected senior leader Duraimurugan as general secretary and senior leader T R Baalu as treasurer.

The announcement was made by DMK president M K Stalin at the party’s general council meeting. DMK is seen to be on transitional stage after the death of M Karunanidhi, the doyen of Dravidian politics.

While, Stalin was annointed as his successor after Karunanidhi fell ill, the other major posts in the party were held by old guards like K Anbazhagan, who was party treasurer for the past four decades. With the demise of Anbazhagan the party is now in a transitional stage.

The party meeting also decided to have two more deputy general secretaries and appointed party seniors K Ponmudy and former Union Minister A Raja to the post.The party at present have five deputy general secretaries.] Duraimurugan was the fourth general secretary of the party. Dravidian patriarch and DMK founder C N Annadurai, V R Nedunchezhiyan and veteran K Anbazhagan held the posts earlier.

Duraimurugan was elected in place of party veteran K Anbazhagan, who held the second most powerful position in the party for 43 years till his death in March this year. Baalu succeeded Duraimurugan as the new treasurer. Duraimurugan, who replaced Stalin as treasurer after the latter was elevated as party president, had quit the post and expressed his willingness to become the general secretary and he was officially declared elected in the General Council meet today.

Since Duraimurugan emerged as the front runner for the general secretary’s post, he had resigned from the post of treasurer on 16 March and it was accepted by Stalin. But the meeting was postponed in view of the coronavirus lockdown.

Meanwhile, DMK in the general council, dubbed the AIADMK government as “antipeople” and vowed to dislodge it from power and make party president M K Stalin as chief minister next year.

“You should have only one goal and that is the return of DMK rule, Kalaignar’s (late patriarch M Karunanidhi) regime,” Stalin said.

The DMK chief, accused the AIADMK government of all round failure and corruption. The party’s Covid work “Ondrinaivom Va,” (Let us come together) has no parallel anywhere in the world, DMK president claimed.