Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Thalapathi M.K. Stalin on Jun 18 said it was below the dignity of Finance Minister and leader of the House O. Panneerselvam to insinuate that he had difference of opinion with his father and DMK President Kalaignar adding that instead of bothering about his family affairs, Panneerselvam should concentrate on his party work.
In a statement, Stalin said on Jun 17 he told reporters that the Assembly Speaker had not only failed to make proper seating arrangement for the wheel chair-bound DMK President Kalaignar to attend the House, but also had not provided a spacious office to accommodate all the 89 members of the party, three of its members were permitted to participate in debates and the leader of Opposition to address the House on the day the Chief Minister would make a reply to the Governor’s address. It the demands were not met the next course of action would be decided in consultation with Thalaivar Kalaignar.
“We have already made a request to the Assembly Speaker to make proper arrangement to our leader. Before he could respond to us, Panneerselvam has assumed the role of the Speaker and has tried to drive a wedge between the members of the family. It is unbecoming of the leader of the House to issue such a statement,” Stalin said in the statement.
He said Panneerselvam was not known to make such statements “but has been forced to do so”. Stalin charged the Minister with issuing a statement written by someone and described media reports about clashes between himself and his father as wrong.
“The contention by Panneerselvam and reports in some dailies supporting them (ADMK) that there are differences between the father (Kalaignar) and the son (Stalin) are completely false. The efforts by ADMK to create confusion in DMK will not succeed,” he said. “Panneerselvam should not stoop to the level of a third rate politician.”
Reacting to Panneerselvam’s charge that that he had failed to seek seat allocation for his father, Stalin said since DMK whip K. Chakrapani had already submitted a letter there was no need for him to once again mention Kalaignar’s name. The attempt of ADMK to create confusion in the DMK would not succeed, he asserted. Stalin said, “I had in mind the idea of giving a separate letter to the Speaker on allocation of seat to Kalaignar according to his health. So, his name was not mentioned in the list given by me. There is no separate reason for leaving his name as stated by Panneerselvam”. Later, a letter was submitted to the Speaker through DMK whip Chakrapani on seating arrangements for Kalaignar, he added.
Stalin said “it was base and mean that Panneerselvam had accused me of snatching the post of Leader of the Opposition from our leader. It is he who conferred the post on me. Even in the previous Assembly, he made me the leader of the DMK and I replied to the Governor’s address,” he said.
“Let not Panneeerselvam, with the crisis in his family and party in mind, not imagine that there was confusion in our party and family. Without indulging in such attempts to cover up the Chef Minister not taking the Finance Minister along with her even when she visited Delhi (to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and present a dossier of demands for funds for projects in various sectors), the crises he faced there (in his party) and the condition of the relation between him (Panneeerselvam) and Karur Anbunathan (who is under the I-T scanner for holding unaccounted money. Anbunathan’s premises were raided by the election commission and I-T officials and Rs 4.87 crore, 12 currency counting machines and a van with fake registration number seized from there. Following the seizure, the EC also cancelled the election for Aravakurichi constituency) through Natham Viswanathan, and behave with the magnanimity go taking office again”, Stalin said,
In a statement, Stalin said on Jun 17 he told reporters that the Assembly Speaker had not only failed to make proper seating arrangement for the wheel chair-bound DMK President Kalaignar to attend the House, but also had not provided a spacious office to accommodate all the 89 members of the party, three of its members were permitted to participate in debates and the leader of Opposition to address the House on the day the Chief Minister would make a reply to the Governor’s address. It the demands were not met the next course of action would be decided in consultation with Thalaivar Kalaignar.
“We have already made a request to the Assembly Speaker to make proper arrangement to our leader. Before he could respond to us, Panneerselvam has assumed the role of the Speaker and has tried to drive a wedge between the members of the family. It is unbecoming of the leader of the House to issue such a statement,” Stalin said in the statement.
He said Panneerselvam was not known to make such statements “but has been forced to do so”. Stalin charged the Minister with issuing a statement written by someone and described media reports about clashes between himself and his father as wrong.
“The contention by Panneerselvam and reports in some dailies supporting them (ADMK) that there are differences between the father (Kalaignar) and the son (Stalin) are completely false. The efforts by ADMK to create confusion in DMK will not succeed,” he said. “Panneerselvam should not stoop to the level of a third rate politician.”
Reacting to Panneerselvam’s charge that that he had failed to seek seat allocation for his father, Stalin said since DMK whip K. Chakrapani had already submitted a letter there was no need for him to once again mention Kalaignar’s name. The attempt of ADMK to create confusion in the DMK would not succeed, he asserted. Stalin said, “I had in mind the idea of giving a separate letter to the Speaker on allocation of seat to Kalaignar according to his health. So, his name was not mentioned in the list given by me. There is no separate reason for leaving his name as stated by Panneerselvam”. Later, a letter was submitted to the Speaker through DMK whip Chakrapani on seating arrangements for Kalaignar, he added.
Stalin said “it was base and mean that Panneerselvam had accused me of snatching the post of Leader of the Opposition from our leader. It is he who conferred the post on me. Even in the previous Assembly, he made me the leader of the DMK and I replied to the Governor’s address,” he said.
“Let not Panneeerselvam, with the crisis in his family and party in mind, not imagine that there was confusion in our party and family. Without indulging in such attempts to cover up the Chef Minister not taking the Finance Minister along with her even when she visited Delhi (to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and present a dossier of demands for funds for projects in various sectors), the crises he faced there (in his party) and the condition of the relation between him (Panneeerselvam) and Karur Anbunathan (who is under the I-T scanner for holding unaccounted money. Anbunathan’s premises were raided by the election commission and I-T officials and Rs 4.87 crore, 12 currency counting machines and a van with fake registration number seized from there. Following the seizure, the EC also cancelled the election for Aravakurichi constituency) through Natham Viswanathan, and behave with the magnanimity go taking office again”, Stalin said,
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