chennai sources stated that as per report ousted Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader MK Alagiri on thursday threw his weight behind veteran actor rajinikanth, saying the latter would fill the vacuum for political leadership in tamil Nadu. He said when asked for a comment on Rajinikanth's remarks "What he said is true. rajinikanth will fill that vacuum”.
Earlier on november 8, rajinikanth had said that there was still a vacuum in political leadership in the state following the deaths of former chief ministers m. karunanidhi and J Jayalalitha. Meanwhile Jayalalitha, an AIADMK leader, died in 2016, karunanidhi, who was DMK chief, breathed his last in 2018.
Moreover it was reported that Alagiri, a former union minister, is the elder brother of MK stalin, who is the current president of DMK. Perhaps he was expelled from the party by his father in 2014 at the heights of a succession crisis between him and Stalin.
