TVK denigrated the dignity of the Assembly: Stalin

DMK leader and former Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said that Tamil Nadu is witnessing by-elections to two Assembly constituencies because of the “death of democracy.”

“Normally, by-elections are necessitated by the death of elected members. Now, democracy has died and caused the byelection,” he said while addressing the party’s Mupperum Vizha.

Mr. Stalin said the by-elections to the Maduranthagam and Dharapuram constituencies had been imposed on voters even before the indelible ink on their fingers had disappeared.

“How much arrogance should the ruling party have to force two elected members to resign and field them in the same constituencies? Is it a change? It is a shameless change. Our partymen, during their door-to-door campaign, should explain this to the people, along with the failures of the government,” he said.

Accusing the ruling TVK of running a “reels government,” Mr. Stalin said it had denigrated the dignity of the Assembly, which had completed its centenary.

“You should see what is happening in the Assembly, and I am spared of it. I must thank the people of Kolathur constituency,” he said.