![]() Stalin has called the AIADMK government a slave to the BJP and alleged corruption during its tenure. This was Stalin’s chance to come out of his father’s shadow and be “Thalaivar” (leader) as his party cadres call him.ĭMK, which is out of power since 2011 in the state, gave a head-to-head fight to the ruling party AIADMK in nearly 130 constituencies, under the leadership of Stalin during the campaigning for these polls. Moreover, these are the first Assembly polls to be held in the absence of two towering leaders of the state who ruled Tamil Nadu for decades-former chief ministers J Jayalalithaa and M Karunanidhi. However, that win was hugely credited to an anti-AIADMK-BJP wave following Jayalalithaa’s death in 2016. These Assembly polls were seen as a real test of Stalin’s leadership, despite DMK registering a sweeping victory on 38 out of 39 seats in 2019 parliamentary elections under his guidance. That didn’t come as a surprise to anyone, as during his lifetime, Karunanidhi, on multiple occasions made his preference for his successor abundantly clear and systematically groomed him for the job. He was elected unopposed as the DMK chief in August 2018, after the death of his father, a post that Karunanidhi held for 49 years. He was groomed from an early age by Karunanidhi as his successor and heir.Ħ8-year-old Stalin was contesting as the chief ministerial candidate for the first time during these polls. Born four days after the death of the Soviet communist leader, Stalin was named after Joseph Stalin. Stalin is the second son of former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi with his second wife, Dayalu Ammal. Days ahead of polling in Tamil Nadu (April 2), when his son-in-law’s houses in Chennai was raided by the Income Tax department, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin walked on stage at Perambalur, and said, “I am the son of Kalaignar (nickname of late DMK supremo Karunanidhi).
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