Chennai:
The arrest of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin below MISA or the Upkeep of Inner Safety Act, 1971, through the Emergency grew to become the main focus of fiery exchanges between the ruling TVK and the opposition DMK in Tamil Nadu meeting this week. It led to vociferous protest within the meeting, a stand-off with the Speaker and sharp remarks from Stalin about the best way the home is being performed.
The cost was led by Chief Minister Vijay, who launched an all-out assault on Stalin on Monday, and even appeared to check with his damaged jaw with a gesture that earned censure from the opposition chopping throughout get together traces, who known as it body-shaming. Vijay stated it was simply inadvertant physique language.
Vijay Questions Arrest Below MISA
“For all the things our pals hold saying, we have now seen MISA. Undecided what to do if they create in MISA for all the things. Respectful elders, everybody is aware of concerning the historical past of that MISA,” Vijay stated, placing a pointy query mark towards Stalin’s arrest below MISA, to which the previous Chief Minister has continuously alluded.
As he spoke, he positioned the palm of his proper hand towards his jaw, a gesture extensively seen as a reference to Stalin’s damaged jaw – which the opposition unanimously slammed as “body-shaming”.
That Stalin’s arrest was made below MISA has been continuously questioned by the AIADMK and the BJP.
This time, state minister CTR Nirmal Kumar backed up Vijay. There isn’t any report that Stalin was arrested below MISA, he stated.
“Through the MISA interval, individuals may be arrested in circumstances involving theft, theft and offences towards girls… Stalin was arrested for making defamatory remarks towards then prime minister Indira Gandhi. There isn’t any report saying he was arrested below MISA,” he added.
Opposition Slams “Physique-Shaming”
Vijay’s gesture, seen to be about Stalin’s damaged jaw, was sharply criticised by opposition leaders. The legislators of the DMK staged a sit-in outdoors Speaker JCD Prabhakar’s chamber, demanding that Vijay’s remarks be expunged, until they have been forcibly evicted by Marshalls.
“It’s a well-known historic proven fact that the Emergency interval in India witnessed huge struggles to guard democracy, accompanied by repression and excesses. Throughout that point, former Chief Minister Thiru MK Stalin was brutally assaulted by the police, leading to a damaged jaw,” CPM’s P Shanmugam stated in a publish on social media platform X.
“Ridiculing somebody’s bodily look is condemnable, no matter who engages in it; for the Chief Minister himself to take action is an act of irresponsibility,” he added.
Vijay stated his physique language was inadvertant and never meant to harm anybody’s emotions.
In a publish on X, Vijay stated: “I want to make clear that, throughout my response speech on the police division’s grant request within the Legislative Meeting on 7.9.2026, my physique language, which inadvertently got here in between, was not in any approach intentional. Subsequently, I request that it not be interpreted as an act supposed to harm anybody’s emotions on a private degree.”
Speaker’s Stance
Speaker JCD Prabhakar had rejected the DMK’s demand to expunge Vijay’s remarks on MISA, saying the Chief Minister had referred to issues that had already been mentioned within the Home.
“The DMK wasn’t able to pay attention for even a minute to CM Vijay’s speech yesterday. CM Vijay talked about issues that have been already talked about within the Home relating to the MISA Act. So there isn’t a have to expunge the CM’s speech on the MISA Act,” the Speaker stated.
What Stalin Mentioned
Stalin had earlier stated that his arrest below MISA is thought to everybody. Asking whether or not I used to be arrested below MISA is as silly as asking whether or not I belong to the DMK,” he stated after rumours about his arrest began doing the rounds in 2019.
Immediately, he questioned whether or not the state Legislative Meeting was being performed with dignity. Talking to reporters, he stated, “You might be asking the query your self whether or not it’s being performed with dignity. It’s being run in such a way that it warrants that very query.”
