DMK's Karunanidhi makes Stalin political heir

Putting an end to questions on the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo M Karunanidhi’s political heir, the 92-year old Karunanidhi has stated that his son Stalin, the treasurer of the party at present, would be his successor.

In an interview in Ananda Vikatan, a Tamil magazine, while answering a question on whether Stalin would be his political heir, he said that Stalin has come a long way from organising youth under the party in his younger days to moulding himself as a future leader of the DMK.

“Considering all this, today he is the one who stays as my political heir,” said Karunanidhi.

According to reports, there has been a tug of war between Stalin and M K Alagiri, a DMK leader and former Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers, to be the political heir of the party, a major political force in Tamil Nadu.

Stalin, 63, was deputy chief minister of the state during the DMK government’s tenure between 2009 and 2011, when Karunanidhi was the chief minister. He was also the mayor of Chennai Corporation earlier.