New Delhi, Jan 28: DMK chief Karunanidhi on Tuesday said that expelled party leader and his older son Alagiri has told him that his younger brother Stalin will die within three months.
Alagiri, 62, MP from Madurai, has been involved in a prolonged tussle with his brother MK Stalin for control of the party.
“He used harsh language against Stalin, which I cannot tolerate. No father can tolerate such words against his own son,” said the DMK leader, who had okayed MK Alagiri’s expulsion from all party posts.
“I don’t know why Alagiri nurtures so much hatred against his brother,” TV reports quoted Karunanidhi as saying.
The DMK on Friday temporarily suspended MK Alagiri from the party’s primary membership and all posts for "indiscipline".
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DMK general secretary K Anbazhagan had said in a statement that Alagiri was creating confusion by urging party cadres not to work and criticising the disciplinary action taken by the party against some members for their anti-party activities.
“His continuation in the party is not proper and would destroy the party discipline,” he said.
Alagiri had recently been given a veiled warning by his father after he opposed an alliance between DMK and the DMDK, a regional party headed by former actor Vijayakanth, who is also being wooed by the BJP.
He holds sway in the southern part of the state and five of his supporters in the disbanded Madurai unit of the party had been suspended for putting up his posters.
Alagiri had told Puthiya Thalaimurai, a Tamil news channel that except his father he would not accept anyone as the DMK chief. He had also said that a lot of decisions were taken by the DMK top brass without his congnisance.
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