Union Minister for Chemical and Fertilizers MK Alagiri on Tuesday had a twenty minutes meeting with the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in Delhi.
A day after the opposition raised questions over "perpetual" absence of Union Minister M K Alagiri from Parliament, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said on Friday that even she had not received any communication about his whereabouts.
Alleging lack of intra-party democracy in the Dravida Munetra Kazhagam, former union minister D Napoleon on Sunday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has set eyes on strengthening its presence in Tamil Nadu ahead of 2016 assembly elections.
The Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam is all set to withdraw its five Union ministers from the United Progressive Alliance-2 by the weekend to express solidarity with the Sri Lankan Tamil issue. The step is expected to be taken to put UPA-2 on notice if India voted in favour of Sri Lanka in Geneva where the United Nations Human Rights Council is currently in session.
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam was left embarrassed on Thursday when suspended Denied Member of Parliament and former Union minister M K Alagiri called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Union Minister M K Alagiri is taking his mother Dayalu Ammal to the US for a health check-up.
Alagiri's grouse is that the party has not taken strong action against three persons -- A Raja, Kanimozhi and Poongothai Aladi Aruna.
In further signs of fissures within DMK, party chief M Karunanidhi's son M K Alagiri on Monday skipped the crucial executive committee meet, which is likely to take key decisions in the wake of the party's pullout from the United Progressive Alliance.
Union Minister M K Alagiri on Monday spent half-an-hour with his stepsister Kanimozhi, who is behind bars for her role in the 2G scam, in Tihar jail. Kanimozhi affectionately addressed Alagiri as anna (brother) as the two spent time together discussing Tamil Nadu politics and the on-going Parliament session.
Union minister MK Alagiri has shifted his base from Madurai to New Delhi since last week. After a massive rout in Tamil Nadu, MK Alagiri has now shifted his attention to Delhi.
M K Alagiri, the disgruntled son of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam patriarch M Karunanidhi, has reached out to the Bharatiya Janata Party with an offer of support in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Tamil Nadu Industries Minister S P Velumani has alleged that a granites firm owned by Dayanidhi Alagiri, Union Minister M K Alagiri's son, has been indulging in illegal quarrying of granite worth crores of rupees in and around Melur near Madurai.
In further signs of fissures within DMK, party chief M Karunanidhi's son M K Alagiri on Monday skipped the crucial executive committee meet, which is likely to take key decisions in the wake of the party's pullout from the United Progressive Alliance.
Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers M K Alagiri on Wednesday said that he had not offered to resign from the Union cabinet or from the post of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 's south zone secretary.
Union Fertilizer Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam strongman MK Alagiri is keen to return to Tamil Nadu politics. He may do so by relinquishing his Union minister position by mid December to campaign for DMK in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu for the assembly elections in 2011.
Known for his organisational skills, Union Minister and party's strongman M K Alagiri shies away from open electioneering. But he is always on the move, crisscrossing southern Tamil Nadu giving 'pep talks' to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam cadre
A complaint has been lodged with police against a woman family member of Union Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader M Karunanidhi's son M K Alagiri alleging that a temple property in Madurai had been illegally acquired by her.
Union minister and senior Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam leader M K Alagiri, along with 52 other members of his party, has been booked by the police in connection with the alleged assault of an election official and a videographer at a village in the district. Tahsildar M Kalimuthu, who is the assistant returning officer for Melur assembly segment, and a videographer, part of a flying squad, were allegedly assaulted by DMK men when they videographed Alagiri's visit to a temple.
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Tuesday warned of disciplinary action against those responsible for putting up posters carrying inappropriate words across the city in connection with the birthday celebrations of Union Minister M K Alagiri.
Alagiri's father and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, his younger brother and Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin, and other members of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's first family were present at the reception held under very tight security. Former Union telecom minister A Raja, who quit over the 2G spectrum scam, was seen standing near Karunanidhi for a long time, chatting with him at times
Union Minister MK Alagiri and his sister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Member of Parliament Kanimozhi, children of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi both were travelling from Chennai to New Delhi by the same Indian Airlines flight on Tuesday.
Former Union Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader M K Alagiri was on Friday suspended from the party on charges of going against the party's stand and airing divergent views on the issue of stitching an alliance with Vijaykant's Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam.
The estranged elder brother of Stalin said neither he nor his son Durai Dayanidhi yearned for any position in the party.
Asserting that his father and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi was his leader, Union Minister M K Alagiri said on Thursday that he would stand for the party president's post in future if there was a contest.
Union Minister M K Alagiri will no longer have to fight shy of Parliament on the ground that he is not well-versed in English or Hindi.
Union Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader M K Alagiri is reported to be upset over party supremo and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi naming his younger son M K Stalin as his political successor.
Amid reports that Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader and Union Minister M K Alagiri has submitted his resignation from the Union Cabinet to party president Karunanidhi, DMK leader TR Baalu met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi to discuss "alliance matters".
In a further jolt to the fragile ties between the Congress and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Union minister for Chemicals and DMK leader MK Alagiri has said that, " We (DMK) have no expectations of a patch-up with the Congress. The split will not affect our poll results."
In a terse note to the prime minister, Union Minister of Fertilisers M K Alagiri has opposed the UPA-2 government's move to decontrol urea that was left out from the 2010 policy enforced on the phosphatic and potassic fertilisers known as NPK, pointing out the disaster of allowing the manufacturers and importers instead of the government to fix the maximum retail price of these fertilisers.
Former Union Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader M K Alagiri was on Friday suspended from the party headed by his father M Karunanidhi on charges of going against the party's stand and airing divergent views on the issue of stitching an alliance with Vijaykant's Desiya Morpukku Dravida Kazhagam.
The Election Commission on Saturday issued a show cause notice to Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers M K Alagiri for allegedly violating model code of conduct ahead of the April 13 assesmbly polls in Tamil Nadu.
Stung by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam move to suspend him, former Union Minister M K Alagiri on Saturday charged that democracy was dead in the party and questioned why no action was taken against his younger brother M K Stalin's supporters for pasting posters hailing him as future party president.
Breaking his silence, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Friday denied his son and Union Minister M K Alagiri had offered to resign from the Cabinet. "These are media reports. Let them continue to be media reports. He has not given any letter to me," Karunanidhi told mediapersons in his first comments on the issue.
Notwithstanding his suspension from the party, three Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MPs met former Union Minister M K Alagiri at his residence in Madurai even as the rebel leader's supporters put up posters praising him on the occasion of his 63rd birthday on Thursday.
The Madras high court on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Union minister M K Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi, in the multi-crore illegal granite quarrying case. Dayanidhi and nine others are facing charges that companies owned by them mined sand and granite without permission.
'Attack' Pandi, believed to be a key aide of Union Minister and senior DMK leader, M K Alagiri, was arrested on Frinday in Madurai for allegedly making changes to a lease agreement over a house by fraudulent means.
The Madras high court on Monday quashed a non-bailable arrest warrant against Union Minister M K Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi and granted him anticipatory bail in the alleged multi-crore illegal granite quarrying scam.
Union Minister M K Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi on Friday surrendered at a Madurai court three days after being granted anticipatory bail in connection with the multi-crore granite scam by the Madras high court.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Sunday spent 30 minutes with his son and Union minister MK Alagiri at his official bungalow in New Delhi.
DMK treasurer said the talks of his brother's return to party are rumours.
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