As the voice of the entire state, he was proud that party MPs, including Kanimozhi, A Raja, and TR Baalu, had highlighted the rights of the state and their stiff opposition to the anti-democratic One Nation One Election would have reached the Prime Minister’s ears loud and clear.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan joined Stalin for the inaugural ceremony.
Putting at rest speculation about his reported meeting with Adani Group founder Gautam Adani, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Tuesday denied having ever met the business tycoon and reiterated the INDIA Bloc’s demand for a Joint-Parliamentary Probe into the alleged irregularities of the conglomerate.
He was responding to Leader of the Opposition and AIADMK general Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) during the debate on the government resolution urging the Union Government to cancel the lease granted to the company, a subsidiary of the Vedanta group.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called up Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin in connection with the massive flooding in many districts of the state, government sources said.
He was responding to a query from the media at Chennai airport before leaving for the US on a 17-day investment scouting visit. Asked whether there would be a ministerial rejig on his return, the Chief Minister was candid enough to hint that it was very much a possibility.
Even as the friendly spat between superstar Rajinikanth and DMK veteran and Tamil Nadu Public Works Minister Duraimurugan over old guards refusing to step aside appeared to have come to an end with a truce, the debate on elders in the party paving way for the youth has received a renewed thrust ahead of Chief Minister MK Stalin’s fortnight-long US visit.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President M K Stalin described the Union government withdrawing lateral entry recruitment as a victory for social justice.
Speculation is rife about Udhayanidhi’s appointment as the number two in the Tamil Nadu government along with a cabinet reshuffle.
The notice was issued to them, who were then in the Opposition, for displaying gutkha sachets in the House to highlight free flow of the contraband.
