It led to vociferous protest in the assembly, a stand-off with the Speaker and sharp remarks from Stalin about the way the house is being conducted. The arrest of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin under MISA or the Maintenance of Internal Security Act, 1971, during the Emergency became the focus of fiery exchanges between the ruling TVK and the opposition DMK in Tamil Nadu assembly this week.
The charge was led by Chief Minister Vijay, who launched an all-out attack on Stalin on Monday, and even appeared to refer to his broken jaw with a gesture that earned censure from the opposition cutting across party lines.
The charge was led by Chief Minister Vijay, who launched an all-out attack on Stalin on Monday, and even appeared to refer to his broken jaw with a gesture that earned censure from the opposition cutting across party lines, who called it body-shaming. “The DMK wasn’t ready to listen for even a minute to CM Vijay’s speech yesterday. “For everything our friends keep saying, we have seen MISA. Not sure what to do if they bring in MISA for everything. This time, state minister CTR Nirmal Kumar backed up Vijay. “It is a well-known historical fact that the Emergency period in India witnessed massive struggles to protect democracy, accompanied by repression and excesses. CM Vijay mentioned things that were already mentioned in the House regarding the MISA Act.
Respectful elders, everyone knows about the history of that MISA,” Vijay said, putting a sharp question mark against Stalin’s arrest under MISA, to which the former Chief Minister has frequently alluded. There is no record that Stalin was arrested under MISA, he said. During that time, former Chief Minister Thiru MK Stalin was brutally assaulted by the police, resulting in a broken jaw,” CPM’s P Shanmugam said in a post on social media platform X. “Ridiculing someone’s physical appearance is condemnable, regardless of who engages in it; for the Chief Minister himself to do so is an act of irresponsibility,” he added. So there is no need to expunge the CM’s speech on the MISA Act,” the Speaker said.
