Chennai sources stated that DMK president M K Stalin has alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi united the two warring factions in the ruling AIADMK by holding "kangaroo court", which he said was a role played by a "political broker". Meanwhile when lashing out at Modi for describing the DMK-Congress alliance as "opportunistic", Stalin, addressing a party meeting said the prime minister was making such remarks as he had been "jolted" by the defeat of BJP in the recent assembly elections in three states.
Furthermore repeating his 'kangaroo court' barb made by him in the past, Stalin accused Modi of "dividing" the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) into factions led by Tamilnadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami and his now deputy O Panneerselvam after the death of party supreme J Jayalalitha in 2016.
Moreover referring to the prime minister's criticism of the DMK-Congress alliance, Stalin claimed Modi was attacking the two parties in view of the political turnaround at the national level which he (Modi) had not expected. Reportedly the DMK leader's sharp attack comes days after he proposed Congress president Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition alliance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to defeat "fascist" Modi government.
