Stalin credits late DMK leader M. Balakrishnan with party’s growth in Tiruchi

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M.K. Stalin. File

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026) said that the publication of erstwhile president of the erstwhile Tiruchi municipality, M. Balakrishnan, to the maturation of the DMK successful the portion would beryllium remembered forever.

Speaking astatine the household wedding of erstwhile MLA B. Bharanikumar, Mr. Stalin said that the precocious Balakrishnan was intimately associated with erstwhile Chief Ministers C.N. Annadurai, M. Karunanidhi, and DMK seasoned Anbil K. Dharmalingam. Balakrishnan shouldered the work of reaching retired to the radical of the country for the maturation of the DMK. When the enactment performed poorly successful a section assemblage election, Balakrishnan had emerged victorious successful Tiruchi, securing a ample fig of votes. He made a people successful the wide improvement of Tiruchi and the maturation of the DMK.

Recollecting his agelong relationship with two-time Tiruchi East MLA Bharanikumar, lad of Balakrishnan, Mr. Stalin said helium has been intimately associated with him for astir 20 years. “We utilized to sojourn assorted parts of the State, during the archetypal signifier of launching the DMK younker wing, on with the precocious Anbil Poyyamozhi. It was Bharanikumar who drove maine astir successful his idiosyncratic car to be enactment functions successful antithetic parts of the State. We toured extensively to dispersed the ideals of the party. These experiences are inactive etched successful my memory,” Mr. Stalin said. Though it was a hectic clip politically, with the State elections astir the corner, it was his enslaved with the household that compelled him to be the wedding, helium added.

Mr. Bharanikumar was continuing his father’s governmental legacy, and continued to beryllium known for his predetermination work, Mr. Stalin added.

Minister for Municipal Administration K.N. Nehru, Minister for School Education Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, and others spoke. 

Published - January 28, 2026 03:31 p.m. IST

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