Overview
- Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay used a Sept. 7 Assembly speech to accuse the DMK of organised corruption, citing the Sarkaria Commission and Enforcement Directorate documents that name M.K. Stalin and Udhayanidhi Stalin.
- The DMK mounted statewide demonstrations on Sept. 12 to condemn Vijay’s remarks and to defend Stalin’s record and the party’s history during the Emergency.
- Law Minister R. Nirmal Kumar publicly challenged Stalin to produce the Maintenance of Internal Security Act detention order and said there is no official record showing a MISA arrest.
- Nirmal Kumar also predicted the DMK will lose the upcoming Assembly by-elections and criticised the party’s candidate choices and alleged vote-buying, linking the row directly to immediate electoral stakes.
- No detention order or court finding has been produced in public to settle the dispute, and coverage splits between reports on DMK mobilisation and reports on the ruling side’s challenge, leaving documentary proof as the central unsettled issue that could shape political narratives.