MK Stalin slammed the comments of Tamil Nadu Power Minister.
The 23 law-makers of the DMK were evicted today from the Tamil Nadu legislature after they protested noisily against remarks about their chief.
M Karunanidhi, the 90 year-old boss of the DMK, had left the state assembly yesterday in anger, alleging that there were no arrangements for "a disabled person like me." He uses a wheelchair.
Today, he was absent when Power Minister N Viswanathan said that agreements to buy electricity from private firms, described as exorbitant by the DMK, had actually been struck by Mr Karunanidhi when he was Chief Minister.
"If a five-time Chief Minister doesn't know the deals signed during his tenure, I wonder if he pretends or he was not aware of what was happening then," the Power Minister said.
The DMK asked that the comments be expunged or removed from the records; the Speaker declined, provoking angry protests from the DMK, who were soon escorted out by security guards or marshals.
Outside, MK Stalin, a senior DMK leader and younger son of M Karunanidhi, said "The Power Minister speaks in such poor taste. He says Kalaignar (Karunandhi) doesn't know politics, law or administration. He wonders how he was Chief minister five times. Let me ask, is Mr Viswanathan a match even for the dust on Karunanidhi's feet?"
The DMK was defeated in the last state election in 2011 by J Jayalithaa, the head of the AIADMK. She was forced to step down as Chief Minister in September after she was convicted for corruption and arrested. She has appealed against the verdict and is now out on bail. Her loyalist O Panneerselvam has replaced her as head of the government.
In the national election in May, Jayalalithaa's party won all but two parliamentary seats.