K S Alagiri

All efforts should be taken by Chief Minister M K Stalin to remove the "injustice" caused by the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K S Alagiri said here on Monday.

Newly appointed Tamil Nadu Congress chief, K S Alagiri today said the party will work towards bagging all the 39 Lok Sabha seats in the state and the one in neighbouring Puducherry in the general elections.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday appointed KS Alagiri as the new president of the Tamil Nadu Pradesh Congress Committee. Mr Gandhi also appointed H Vasantha Kumar, K Jayakumar, MK Vishnu Prasad and Mayura Jayakumar as new working presidents to assist him.

A day ahead of his brother M K Stalin's elevation as the DMK president, expelled leader M K Alagiri today hardened his stance saying he will continue with the proposed September 5 march and warned the party of consequences if he was not readmitted.

DMK treasurer and heir-apparent MK Stalin today denied reports that he is in the race for the position of party general secretary, a post currently held by veteran leader, 92-year-old K Anbazhagan.

Slamming the choice of DMK's candidate, a loyalist of his younger brother M K Stalin, in Tirunelveli Lok Sabha constituency, expelled party leader M K Alagiri today exhorted his supporters to ensure that he finished third in the April 24 polls.

The DMK has decided to expel former union minister M K Alagiri, the elder son of party founder M Karunanidhi, for participating in "anti-party activities,'' a euphemism for his plans to back Narendra Modi's BJP and its allies in the Lok Sabha polls next month.

Suspended DMK leader M K Alagiri today said he had never worked against the party at any point of time and wondered why the high command had suspended him, hours after it warned its cadres against having any truck with him.

Former union minister M K Alagiri, suspended from the DMK by his father M Karunanidhi, today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in what was described essentially as a 'thanksgiving visit,'peppered with a little bit of political talk.

Two days after a DMK-led fishermen's delegation met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, an association of fishermen headed by a Congress MP today called on him seeking his intervention for release of their counterparts who are languishing in Sri Lankan jails.

Former Union minister M K Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi, who has been granted anticipatory bail in the alleged granite quarrying scam, today filed a plea in the Madras High Court Bench in Madurai seeking a direction to a lower court to return his passport to enable him go abroad in connection with his business Interests.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday accepted the resignation of five Ministers belonging to DMK, which withdrew support to the UPA government on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.

Seven persons, allegedly involved in the murder of 'Pottu' Suresh, a DMK functionary and associate of Union Minister M K Alagiri, today surrendered before the Judicial Magistrate Court in Dindigul district, police said.

The battle for the top position in the DMK is once again being fought publicly. Party chief M Karunanidhi's older son, M K Alagiri, is far from pleased with his father's declaration that he has picked M K Stalin as his political successor.

Police have alerted immigration authorities to help them in preventing Durai Dayanidhi, union minister M K Alagiri's son, and 11 others from leaving the country in the wake of the state government's crackdown on illegal granite quarrying.

All efforts should be taken by Chief Minister M K Stalin to remove the "injustice" caused by the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K S Alagiri said here on Monday.

Newly appointed Tamil Nadu Congress chief, K S Alagiri today said the party will work towards bagging all the 39 Lok Sabha seats in the state and the one in neighbouring Puducherry in the general elections.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday appointed KS Alagiri as the new president of the Tamil Nadu Pradesh Congress Committee. Mr Gandhi also appointed H Vasantha Kumar, K Jayakumar, MK Vishnu Prasad and Mayura Jayakumar as new working presidents to assist him.

A day ahead of his brother M K Stalin's elevation as the DMK president, expelled leader M K Alagiri today hardened his stance saying he will continue with the proposed September 5 march and warned the party of consequences if he was not readmitted.

DMK treasurer and heir-apparent MK Stalin today denied reports that he is in the race for the position of party general secretary, a post currently held by veteran leader, 92-year-old K Anbazhagan.

Slamming the choice of DMK's candidate, a loyalist of his younger brother M K Stalin, in Tirunelveli Lok Sabha constituency, expelled party leader M K Alagiri today exhorted his supporters to ensure that he finished third in the April 24 polls.

The DMK has decided to expel former union minister M K Alagiri, the elder son of party founder M Karunanidhi, for participating in "anti-party activities,'' a euphemism for his plans to back Narendra Modi's BJP and its allies in the Lok Sabha polls next month.

Suspended DMK leader M K Alagiri today said he had never worked against the party at any point of time and wondered why the high command had suspended him, hours after it warned its cadres against having any truck with him.

Former union minister M K Alagiri, suspended from the DMK by his father M Karunanidhi, today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in what was described essentially as a 'thanksgiving visit,'peppered with a little bit of political talk.

Two days after a DMK-led fishermen's delegation met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, an association of fishermen headed by a Congress MP today called on him seeking his intervention for release of their counterparts who are languishing in Sri Lankan jails.

Former Union minister M K Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi, who has been granted anticipatory bail in the alleged granite quarrying scam, today filed a plea in the Madras High Court Bench in Madurai seeking a direction to a lower court to return his passport to enable him go abroad in connection with his business Interests.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday accepted the resignation of five Ministers belonging to DMK, which withdrew support to the UPA government on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.

Seven persons, allegedly involved in the murder of 'Pottu' Suresh, a DMK functionary and associate of Union Minister M K Alagiri, today surrendered before the Judicial Magistrate Court in Dindigul district, police said.

The battle for the top position in the DMK is once again being fought publicly. Party chief M Karunanidhi's older son, M K Alagiri, is far from pleased with his father's declaration that he has picked M K Stalin as his political successor.

Police have alerted immigration authorities to help them in preventing Durai Dayanidhi, union minister M K Alagiri's son, and 11 others from leaving the country in the wake of the state government's crackdown on illegal granite quarrying.