MK hits a chord with smartphone generation

Apolitical youngsters, journalists, political commentators and allies either “fondly remembered” the five-time chief minister or recalled his contributions to promoting social justice and equality. 

A few first-generation graduates on Twitter paid their tribute to the late leader by seeking to know what they were reminded by the mere mention of the name Karunanidhi. A few others even ran an online poll asking, “Do you see MK Stalin as a worthy successor of Karunanidhi?” 

The cricket crazy former chief minister’s love for the game was appreciated by young fans who posted the famous picture of an elated Karunanidhi shaking hands with MS Dhoni. Even the ally leaders of DMK, who took part in the meeting on his birth anniversary made an appeal to Stalin to lead them on the path laid out by Karunanidhi to defeat the Hindutva forces spreading across the country.

In fact, Twitter users got an occasion on his birth anniversary to hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi regime for 10 per cent quota for economical weaker upper castes in the open category, lynching by gaurakshaks and the draft national education policy unveiled by Kasturirangan Committee among the various controversial issues that have been the talking point for a couple of 

years now. 

Unsurprisingly, there was no dearth in critique either. A good number of netizens opposed to the politics of Karunanidhi and DMK had even used his anniversary to popularise the scams associated with the party leaders, which resulted in a slug fest between followers of self-respect ideology and right-wing Hindutva ideology.