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DMK president M.K. Stalin connected Saturday (June 6, 2026) called upon enactment workers to instrumentality a pledge to bring down the Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) government, which helium said was surviving with the enactment of parties that were erstwhile portion of the DMK-led confederation and had won seats successful the Assembly.
“The TVK authorities is, successful a way, being sustained by our enactment due to the fact that our erstwhile confederation partners are backing it. These are the precise parties that wanted america to triumph the election. Their leaders themselves clarified that they had consulted maine earlier extending enactment to the TVK. I told them that they had the antiauthoritarian close to instrumentality specified a decision,” helium said, portion admitting cadres from assorted parties into the DMK.
Mr. Stalin said his nonsubjective was to forestall the imposition of Governor’s Rule successful Tamil Nadu, which, helium alleged, would efficaciously alteration the BJP to regularisation the State done the Governor. “But soon, we indispensable instrumentality a pledge to bring down the TVK government,” helium said.
‘Have faced victories and defeats’
He said the DMK had alternated betwixt triumph and decision implicit the years. “Victory ne'er went to our head, and we ne'er mislaid bosom aft defeat. DMK workers judge some triumph and decision with equanimity and proceed to enactment for the party,” helium said.
Pointing retired that the DMK mislaid powerfulness during the Emergency due to the fact that enactment person and past Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had gathered radical connected the Marina Beach and adopted a solution opposing the Emergency, Mr. Stalin said: “He believed that ideology was much important than holding connected to power.”
“Again, we mislaid the authorities successful 1991 connected the pretext of the Sri Lankan Tamil issue. We returned to powerfulness successful 1996, but mislaid again successful 2001. We won successful 2006 and came backmost to powerfulness lone successful 2021,” helium said.
Mr. Stalin said that portion radical often permission their parties to articulation the ruling enactment successful pursuit of idiosyncratic interests, those joining the DMK had done truthful contempt it being successful the Opposition.
“But you person joined the DMK, an Opposition party, not for positions oregon a luxurious life, but to basal by the party, enactment for the Tamil radical and reconstruct democracy,” helium said.
