CHENNAI, Nov. 17 -- nDemand from some of the powerful party cadre to field Udhayanidhi Stalin, the film actor-turned-politician son of MK Stalin, the party president, as the candidate for the post of Chennai Mayor in the upcoming local body polls has put the DMK leadership in a dilemma.
Mayors of municipal corporations in Tamil Nadu are elected directly by the voters. The post of Chennai Mayor commands respect and is rated as a powerful post. Stalin himself was the Mayor of Chennai from 1996 to 2001.
If Udhayanidhi is nominated by the party as its mayoral candidate, it would be his first electoral battle and graduation into big-time politics. Stalin has charted out the political road map of his son with the assistance of M Subramaniam, a ...