Alagiri challenges Stalin's claim to DMK throne, says party cadre with him

Alagiri said he was not in the DMK and didn't know about the party's Tuesday meeting

A day ahead of a key meeting of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) executive council, political bickering between brothers MK Alagiri and MK Stalin spilled out in public yet again.   

Alagiri, the 67-year-old eldest son of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, claimed that his brother Stalin did not want him in the party, while making it clear that he had the support of his father's loyalists. 

DMK members, on the other hand, did not refrain from hitting out at Alagiri, calling him a "frustrated man".

     

The former Union minister visited Chennai's Marina Beach on Tuesday to pay homage to