India, May 15 -- DMK President MK Stalin on Thursday said he would take full responsibility for the party's defeat in the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. He announced that a panel would be constituted to evaluate the reasons for the poll defeat and submit a report within 20 days.

Stalin also took a swipe at the AIADMK, saying his party was mature enough not to lodge its legislators in a resort. His veiled reference was aimed at the AIADMK, which lodged its newly elected MLAs at a resort in Puducherry following the May 4 Assembly election results, in which no single party secured the required 118 seats to form the Government on its own.

Addressing the party's district secretaries at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK headquarters here, Sta...