Dmk Mla Suspended

The DMK on Monday suspended its Puducherry functionary K Venkatesan, who resigned as MLA, for ''violating'' party discipline.

KK Selvam, a DMK MLA from the Thousand Lights constituency in Chennai, has triggered speculation of joining the BJP by meeting its national party chief JP Nadda in Delhi on Tuesday.

Two days after being suspended for creating ruckus inside the Tamil Nadu assembly, 80 of the DMK's 89 legislators today held a 'model session' outside the assembly premises.

On Day 1 of his week-long ban from the Tamil Nadu assembly, opposition leader MK Stalin and 87 of his colleagues spent the morning at the gates of the building, alleging that they're being unfairly barred from using facilities including the office that Mr Stalin uses.

MK Stalin, the leader of the main opposition party in Tamil Nadu, was carried out by guards or marshalls from the state legislature today, action that his party described as comparable to the Emergency of the 70s when all democratic rights were crushed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Disgruntled senior TMC(M) leader C Gnanasekaran and former district secretary of DMK and three-time MLA, V Karuppasamy Pandian, today joined the ruling AIADMK in the presence of party chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.

Coming to the support of fellow opposition party DMDK, whose six MLAs were suspended for allegedly creating ruckus in state Assembly last month, DMK President M Karunanidhi today urged the ruling AIADMK to be "magnanimous and commute the punishment."

Tamil Nadu Assembly today witnessed acrimonious scenes with archrivals DMK and AIADMK sparring over a comment by a ruling party MLA in the context of the ongoing controversy involving suspended DMK leader M K Alagiri, prompting Speaker P Dhanapal to order eviction of the opposition party members.

Opposition DMK MLAs, including M K Stalin, the leader of the its Legislature Wing, were today suspended for two days from the Tamil Nadu Assembly for unruly behaviour in the House.

The DMK on Monday suspended its Puducherry functionary K Venkatesan, who resigned as MLA, for ''violating'' party discipline.

KK Selvam, a DMK MLA from the Thousand Lights constituency in Chennai, has triggered speculation of joining the BJP by meeting its national party chief JP Nadda in Delhi on Tuesday.

Two days after being suspended for creating ruckus inside the Tamil Nadu assembly, 80 of the DMK's 89 legislators today held a 'model session' outside the assembly premises.

On Day 1 of his week-long ban from the Tamil Nadu assembly, opposition leader MK Stalin and 87 of his colleagues spent the morning at the gates of the building, alleging that they're being unfairly barred from using facilities including the office that Mr Stalin uses.

MK Stalin, the leader of the main opposition party in Tamil Nadu, was carried out by guards or marshalls from the state legislature today, action that his party described as comparable to the Emergency of the 70s when all democratic rights were crushed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Disgruntled senior TMC(M) leader C Gnanasekaran and former district secretary of DMK and three-time MLA, V Karuppasamy Pandian, today joined the ruling AIADMK in the presence of party chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.

Coming to the support of fellow opposition party DMDK, whose six MLAs were suspended for allegedly creating ruckus in state Assembly last month, DMK President M Karunanidhi today urged the ruling AIADMK to be "magnanimous and commute the punishment."

Tamil Nadu Assembly today witnessed acrimonious scenes with archrivals DMK and AIADMK sparring over a comment by a ruling party MLA in the context of the ongoing controversy involving suspended DMK leader M K Alagiri, prompting Speaker P Dhanapal to order eviction of the opposition party members.

Opposition DMK MLAs, including M K Stalin, the leader of the its Legislature Wing, were today suspended for two days from the Tamil Nadu Assembly for unruly behaviour in the House.