Alagiri ready to work under Stalin

CHENNAI: Former union minister and eldest son of the late M Karunanidhi, MK Alagiri has said that he is ready to work under the leadership of his younger brother MK Stalin, if re-admitted into the DMK. Once the party's south zone organiser with base in Madurai, Alagiri was expelled from the DMK in 2014 for anti-party activities, and has always remained at loggerheads with Stalin. After holding discussions with his loyalists in Madurai, he said he was ready to rejoin the DMK to save the party, but they were not ready to admit him. While he seems to have softened his stand against his younger brother, he said the party general council alone was not the party per se. He said 1500 members of the general council do not form the entire party. “The real party cadres are with me. The numbers will go up after the rally.”