The family of the hospitalized member said that Mariappan was attacked with the intent to annihilate his political growth and aspirations. 

Named as 'Ellorum Nammudan' (Everyone is with us), the party has set a target of enrolling at least 25 lakh new members in 45 days through the new membership drive.

By holding the DMK-Congress alliance responsible for the death of 13 NEET aspirants in the state, EPS outlined that former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had fought against the NEET in the Supreme Court.

The ED has been probing against the DMK leader based on the information that he had acquired foreign securities by violating the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999. 

The General Council meeting has been convened months ahead of the state legislative elections and days ahead of the legislative assembly session.

The election has come after the demise of party's longtime General Secretary K Anbazhagan, who died on March 7, 2020. 

Along with electing the leaders for the top posts, the general council meeting would be discussing the road ahead for the party in facing the legislative elections.

Former ADMK MP Lakshmanan had recently dissented against the ADMK leadership and joined DMK in the presence of party's president MK Stalin.

It has been one of the crucial issues that have been irking the state opposition party for the past three years.

Udhayanidhi added, "I took the photo as per my daughter's wishes and shared the photo on my Twitter page as per her wishes"