CHENNAI: M K Alagiri, son of former chief minister M Karunanidhi and elder brother of DMK president M K Stalin, has called for a meeting of his supporters in Madurai on January 3. The meeting is to get their feedback on his future political course of action, said the former Union minister, who has been in political hibernation since 2014 when he was expelled from the DMK.
“I am meeting my supporters on January 3. If they urge me to launch a new political party, I will do it,” Alagiri told reporters in Chennai on Thursday. He had come to the city to call on his ailing mother Dayalu Ammal, who resides at Karunanidhi’s Gopalapuram residence.
“Only after the January 3 meeting, I will be in a position to take a call on my future course of action on the political front,” Alagiri said, while adding that he has not received any feelers from the DMK so far.
“My contribution will be there in the 2021 assembly election in Tamil Nadu. But it may not have anything to do with the DMK alliance,” he said, while adding that even casting his vote could be seen as a contribution to the election.
Alagiri was the DMK’s Madurai strongman from 2009. But after relations between him and Stalin soured and he was expelled from the party ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Alagiri chose to maintain a low profile.