In his epistle to the cadre on Wednesday, Stalin said that the celebration in Kanchipuram was to bring together the coalition partners of the DMK though the party had already held its own Diamond Jubilee celebration of the party’s founding in Chennai where party leaders participated actively.
In Kanchipuram, the DMK will be providing a platform to 20 leaders of coalition parties to come together and reaffirm their political loyalty, which has become essential in the context of a younger generation leader from the VCK stirring a hornet’s nest by demanding a share in the power pie and requiring the party founder Thol Thirumavalvan to clarify the party’s position.
Thirumavalavan, on Wednesday, told media persons who asked him about the latest controversy, that the DMK and VCK were together and there were no differences of opinion between them. He even suggested that the party would take action against the leader who gave the interview to a YouTube channel, thus putting an end to the controversy.
Apart from Thirumavalavan, the leaders of alliance parties who would be speaking at the Kanchipuram conclave are: K Veeramani (Dravidar Kazhagam), R Mutharasan (CPI), K Balakrishnan (CPM) K Selvaperunthogai (TNCC), Thol Thirumavalvan (VCK), M H Jawahirullah (MMK), K M Kader Moideen (IUML), Vaiko (MDMK), Kamal Hassan (Makkal Neethi Maiam), E R Easwaran (Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi) and T Velmurugan (TVK).
Other allies of the DMK like G M Sridar Vandiyar of Moovendar Munnetra Kazhagam, Ponkumar of Tamil Nadu Peasants and Workers Party, Ernavur Narayanan of Samathuva Makkal Kazhagm, S K Murugavelrajan of People’s Liberation Party, Thamimmun Ansari of Manithaneya Jananayaga Katchi, Karunas of Mukkulathor Pulipadai, Adhiyaman of Adhi Tamizhar Peravai, Tiruppur Altaf of Tamil Nadu Muslim League and P N Ammavasi of Forward Bloc are listed as speakers.
With Stalin as the special speaker, the meeting will see the allies speaking in praise of the DMK, tracing its 75 year old history and also its relevance in the present day context as the key force to fight communalism and uphold pluralism and secularism in the country.
Stalin, in his epistle, said that the assertion of rights by every State in the country alone would protect the pluralism and secularism of Indian democracy and added that all States had come to realize it now. Earlier when the DMK asserted the people’s rights in the name of Tamil, Tamil people and Tamil Nadu, it was accused of parochialism, Stalin recalled.
