Chennai, Sept. 7 -- A combative Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay turned the heat on the principal opposition DMK, painting it as the fountainhead of corruption and nepotism, invoking the 1970s Sarkaria Commission report on the then Karunanidhi regime, and the alleged collection of 'party funds'-a euphemism for bribes-with the prime beneficiaries being former CM MK Stalin and Deputy CM Udhayanidhi during their 2021-26 regime.
The Chief Minister's frontal attack on the DMK and digging up its unsavoury past, particularly the party's first family, led to tumultuous scenes in the Assembly. DMK legislators initially raised slogans and displayed pamphlets, then rushed to the well of the House, surrounded the Speaker, and staged a sit-in before wal...