NEW DELHI: DMK president MK Stalin on Thursday hit again at Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay over his current remarks within the state meeting, accusing him of making an attempt to demean the get together and its leaders whereas recalling his arrest and alleged custodial torture in the course of the Emergency.Responding to Vijay’s criticism of the DMK, Stalin mentioned the get together’s historical past and its ideological wrestle couldn’t be modified by political assaults.“Thambi Vijay, what you mentioned is true. It isn’t a lie. In the course of the Emergency, opposing it, chief Kalaignar organized an enormous gathering on the Marina seashore and severely criticized the MISA Act,” Stalin mentioned in a video message shared on X.His remarks got here after Vijay launched a powerful assault on the DMK within the meeting on Wednesday, accusing earlier governments of corruption and referring to the Sarkaria Fee in addition to Enforcement Directorate paperwork regarding alleged corruption in the course of the 2021-26 regime.Stalin recalled that the Union authorities dismissed the DMK authorities on January 31, 1976, in the course of the Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi authorities.“The very subsequent second after dismissing the federal government, police got here to the Gopalapuram home to arrest me beneath the MISA Act,” Stalin mentioned, recounting how his father and former chief minister M Karunanidhi advised police that his son was away campaigning and would return the subsequent day.Stalin mentioned that after he returned, Karunanidhi himself referred to as the police and requested them to arrest him.Recalling his time in jail, Stalin alleged that he was subjected to extreme bodily abuse and was stored with different prisoners in a small room the place leprosy sufferers had earlier been housed.“In jail, many atrocities occurred to me. We have been taken and locked up in a spot the place leprosy sufferers have been stored. Ten folks have been locked inside a small room. Inside that very same room, in a single pot, all of us needed to urinate,” he mentioned.Stalin alleged that police beat prisoners with lathis at night time, kicked them with boots and that different inmates additionally assaulted them. He recalled the dying of DMK chief and former MP Chitti Babu, whom he mentioned died in jail following the beatings.“Because of their beating, my expensive brother, Member of Parliament Chitti Babu, died contained in the jail itself. Because of their beating, my jawbone was damaged,” Stalin mentioned.The DMK has condemned Vijay’s remarks and introduced a statewide protest on September 12, accusing the chief minister of constructing “scurrilous remarks” towards Stalin, Karunanidhi and different get together leaders.Legislation minister R Nirmal Kumar, nonetheless, has disputed Stalin’s account, saying there was no official report to point that his detention in the course of the Emergency was beneath MISA. The minister mentioned Stalin was arrested following remarks regarding Indira Gandhi and her 20-point programme.
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Stalin additionally rejected Vijay’s allegations referring to the Sarkaria Fee and corruption costs towards Karunanidhi, arguing that successive governments would have acted if the allegations had been established.Turning to Vijay’s conduct within the Meeting, Stalin urged him to take care of the dignity anticipated of a chief minister and deal with governance moderately than political controversies.“The Tamil Nadu Legislative Meeting has dignity and respect. It’s a place sculpted by many nice leaders, nice males. That duty is now with you,” Stalin mentioned.