Stalin hit back at Vijay over his recent Assembly remarks on the Emergency-era Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA). He recounted his 1976 arrest and alleged custodial torture during the Emergency.
Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay “must not talk about unnecessary controversies in the Assembly,” DMK president MK Stalin said on Thursday.
He also asked those who doubted his account to check the documents available in the Assembly library. “You turned the Assembly itself into a place where reels happen, standing on the bridge we built and doing photoshoots, you are running the administration also, just like a cinema shooting.
Addressing Vijay as “Thambi Vijay”, Stalin said his Emergency-era struggle was part of the DMK’s history. “History can never be changed,” the former Tamil Nadu chief minister said. To hide your inefficient administration, you are posting various reels like this and cheating a whole generation,” Stalin said in a video on X.
‘Police came to arrest me’
Even today, I have the scars of the beatings I received. He recalled that police reached the Karunanidhi residence in Gopalapuram immediately after the dismissal to arrest him under MISA. He then asked them to come back when Stalin returned. You also showed it like this, keeping your hand near the jaw, right? That is correct.
“Due to their beating, my dear brother, Member of Parliament Chitti Babu, died inside the jail itself. Due to their beating, my jawbone was broken. Stalin said that after the DMK organised a major gathering at Marina Beach in 1976 to oppose the Emergency and criticise MISA. “The Union Government that was in power at that time, on 31st January 1976, dismissed the DMK government.
Stalin said he was away campaigning at the time. The very next second after dismissing the government, police came to the Gopalapuram house to arrest me under the MISA Act,” he said in his video. Karunanidhi told the police that his son had gone campaigning and would return the next day, according to Stalin. I am not saying no,” Stalin said.
