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Karunanidhi seconds Stalin for DMK chief's
post
Sunday January 06, 2013 10:43:53 PM,
IANS
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Chennai: DMK chief M.
Karunanidhi Sunday made it clear that he would propose his son M.K.
Stalin as his successor or for the post of general secretary to
the party's general council.
"DMK is a democratic party. For anybody to contest for president
or general secretary's post, his name has to be proposed at the
party's general council by majority and others have to abide by
it," Karunanidhi told reporters after a meeting with the party's
district secretaries here.
He said: "If I get such a chance in my personal capacity, then I
would propose Stalin's name, as his name was earlier proposed by
the party's general secretary and it will be like I am seconding
it."
DMK general secretary K. Anbazhagan also said that if he makes a
proposal and other members second it, then even the president (Karunanidhi)
cannot refute it.
On whether he would contest for the party chief's post,
Karunanidhi said: "I don't know whether I will be around till such
time."
Referring to the recent media reports that he supports Stalin as
his successor in the party, he said: "Can you show me that (how)
Stalin would succeed me in the DMK?"
At a party function Thursday, the DMK chief said that Stalin would
be the party's torchbearer after him to fight for the upliftment
of Dalits.
Reacting to the media reports, Karunanidhi's elder son and union
minister M.K. Alagiri Friday said the party was not a Hindu
hermitage to name a successor to his father.
He said the party's by-laws do not allow announcing Stalin as the
next leader of the DMK and the laws have to be followed.
On Alagiri's aspiration for the party president's post,
Karunanidhi said that it would be decided at the general council
meeting.
"DMK is a democratic party and any member can stand against
Stalin," Karunanidhi said when asked whether he would ask Alagiri
not to prevent Stalin's accession to the posts.
Karunanidhi said the party's internal elections would be over
before the 2014 general elections.
Although from the same family, Alagiri and Stalin do not see eye
to eye on some major issues concerning the DMK.
Alagiri has in the past made it clear that he would not accept
anyone apart from Karunanidhi as the DMK leader and that he was
ready to contest if there was a battle for the party leadership.
Karunanidhi, who has led the DMK since 1969, is now 88 years old
and in poor health. The issue of who will lead the party -- one of
India's oldest -- after Karunanidhi has been raised repeatedly.
Stalin became the treasurer of the DMK in December 2008. He became
deputy chief minister of Tamil Nadu six months later when the DMK
ruled Tamil Nadu.
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