September 5 rally on schedule: Alagiri

“I am Thalaivar’s (late DMK Chief M Karunanidhi) son, so I will do what I said,” he told reporters here when asked about the rally proposed by him to pay homage to his father, who died on August 7.

However, he refused to respond to a query on the party’s silence to his request to readmit him.

Alagiri, who has been claiming since Karunanidhi’s death that loyal party workers were with him, had earlier said the DMK would face threat after his rally.

His meeting with his supporters in Madurai entered the tenth day ahead of the rally. Recently, Alagiri exuded confidence that over one lakh persons would attend the rally for sure and it would be his massive show of strength.

However, shifting his position, Alagiri later expressed his willingness to accept DMK president MK Stalin’s leadership with a rider to readmit him into the party.

The former union minister has been in political hibernation since his expulsion from the party in 2014 by Karunanidhi.

He was sacked at the height of his fight with Stalin over establishing supremacy in the party.