DMK’s working president MK Stalin on Sunday filed nomination for the post of president of the party and it is learnt that the elections will be held on Tuesday.
Earlier today, Stalin sought blessings from his mother, met senior party leader Anbazhagan and visited memorials of Karunanidhi and Annadurai before filing the nominations.
Earlier, Muthuvel Karunanidhi Alagiri, the estranged son of late DMK chief M Karunanidhi had revolted against the party at his father’s grave at Anna Memorial in Chennai.
Addressing reporters, 67-year-old Alagiri drove a crack in the already fractured political landscape of Tamil Nadu with his announcement that he is the right person to head the party.
Triggering a succession war, Alagiri accused his brother, working president MK Stalin, of “not working” for the welfare of the party.
Expressing his disappointment at the manner in which DMK is being run, the former Union Minister said that all “true relatives” of his father are on his side.
“My father’s true relatives are all are on my side. All the supporters in Tamil Nadu are on my side and are encouraging me alone. Only time will give the answers…that is all I am willing to say now,” Alagiri told reporters after paying tributes at his father’s grave, who passed away on 7 August aged 94.
He said his anguish was about the party and not about the family and the public would come to know the whole story at the appropriate time.
Both Alagiri and his younger brother Stalin are Karunanidhi’s sons from his second wife Dayalu Ammal.
Alagiri was expelled by Karunanidhi in 2014 following his protest against Stalin’s elevation and criticising other leaders of the party.