Addressing an election rally in this industrial city, they claimed the Goods Services Tax (GST) and demonetisation had broken the backbone of the country’s economy and leading to closure of small industries in the state, rendering thousands of workers jobless.
The pro-Dalit VCK has been given Villupuram and Chidambaram (SC) segments. The Vaiko-led MDMK has been allotted the Erode constituency.
The DMK has signed electoral alliance pacts with Congress (nine seats in Tamil Nadu and the lone Puducherry seat), IUML and KDMK (one seat each).
According to the agreement, KMDK will fight the election from DMK's 'Rising Sun' symbol, the release added.
The BJP will get 5 out of the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu while the AIADMK and others will get the rest.
Kanimozhi said that anyone who cares for Democracy, Federalism and Constitution must stand with the West Bengal chief minister.
Parliament has passed a Constitutional amendment providing for 10 per cent reservation for the economically weaker sections in the general category.
Congress, TMC, AIADMK and RJD staged walkout soon after Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad concluded his reply.
"My stand is...post-election we'll decide. I made it very clear, we should not announce a candidate today," Naidu said at the "India Today Conclave South 2018" in New Delhi.
Posing questions to Rajinikanth in the name of an “innocent fan” of the popular star, DMK mouthpiece ‘Murasoli’ asked if the actor was not really behind posts as claimed by him, he should have then started a movement on the lines of rationalist leader, the late E V Ramasamy Periyar.
Kamal Haasan said that he would be contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha elections though he ruled out any truck with DMK and AIDMK, saying both these parties needed to be isolated.
Stalin has been admitted to Apollo Hospital where he underwent a surgery to remove a cyst from his right thigh.
Karunanidhi had expelled Alagiri and his supporters from the party in 2014.
"The Union government is trying to destabilise judiciary, selection of governors. All this has dealt a blow to the secular principle," Stalin said in his first speech as DMK chief.
However, Stalin's elevation is facing a stiff resistance from late DMK president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi's other son MK Alagiri
He will be the second President of the party, a post which was held by his father Karunanidhi for 49 long years.
Earlier on August 13, Alagiri had laimed that all loyal party workers are with him and hit out at Stalin, accusing him of blocking his return to the party.
Stalin's remarks come at a time when Alagiri, expelled by DMK patriarch and their father M Karunanidhi in 2014 at the height of his fight with Stalin over establishing supremacy in Tamil Nadu’s main opposition party, has raised a banner of revolt.
Alagiri visited Karunanidhi's memorial at Chennai's Marina beach on Monday. Talking to reporters later, Alagiri asserted that "true relatives" and supporters of his father are with his side.
The party said the award will be a real tribute to the late Tamil Nadu leader's outstanding and exemplary work which had left an indelible mark in history. DMK's Tiruchi Shiva dubbed Karunanidhi the "tallest leader of the country and a Dravidian stalwart".
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