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Stalin goes nostalgic
Special Correspondent
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At a workers’ meet in Madurai
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Party’s State meet on December 15, 16 More importance to be given for youth
MADURAI: It was a political party meeting with a difference. Setting aside the conventional practice of training guns on opponents, speakers at the workers’ meet of the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s youth wing held here on Wednesday opted to go down the memory lane.
The focus was on how the youth wing that made a humble beginning at Madurai in 1980 emerged into an indispensable force of the party.
DMK’s deputy general secretary, M.K. Stalin, kept the gathering in good humour all through his hour-long speech on the youth wing’s formation, objectives and prospects.
The roots
Tracing the roots of the wing to a hairdressers’ shop in Chennai, he said a handful of youths formed the ‘Gopalapuram youth DMK’ in the early 1960s.
“We used to meet at a barber’s shop in Gopalapuram and organise welfare programmes in the locality. During birth anniversary of Anna, we used to raise funds from leaders coming to visit my father (Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi). The first five names in the fund-raising notebook would be fictitious only to encourage others to contribute generously,” Mr. Stalin said as the cadres burst into laughter.
He recalled how the former Chief Minister, M.G. Ramachandran, did not turn up after promising to attend a function organised to mark Anna’s birth anniversary.
“I went to the studio and insisted that he should come. MGR said I am as adamant as my father and came along.”
Perform
Advised youths to perform so that power or position came knocking, he said some were crazy after letterhead, visiting card and flexi board politics.
The first State conference of the wing to be held in Tirunelveli on December 15 and 16 was an exclusive domain of youths where seniors should be “sidelined,” he said in a lighter vein pointing out to senior Minsters who were seated off the dais in a corner.
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