CHENNAI: The DMK president M K Stalin said here on Friday that his party was committed to 'State Autonomy', which is the rationale for the party's condemnation and disapproval of recent developments in Jammu and Kashmir.
Speaking at a marriage function in the city this evening, Mr. Stalin said any amount of effort to “conceal or play down the significance” of the DMK MPs' and other opposition MPs' 'dharna' in New Delhi on Thursday demanding return of normalcy in J and K and immediate release of all political party leaders under detention there, will not help DMK's political adversaries in Tamil Nadu.
He recalled how his late father M Karunanidhi had braved even Mrs. Indira Gandhi's Emergency.
On the focused purpose of the Delhi demonstration, Stalin said the protest was not to press for the Centre to rescind the scrapping of Article 370 that had conferred special powers in J and K, but it was against the brazen way the Central government went about abrogating Article 370 without consulting the people and its political party leaders there.
Mr. Stalin also wondered what use the Chief Minister's proposed foreign tour to attract more FDI to Tamil Nadu would serve when nothing much had come out of two Global Investors Meets held by AIADMK government in Chennai.
