Chennai, Aug. 6 -- With Tamil Nadu witnessing a spurt in honour killings across the state, the alliance parties of the ruling DMK today made a strong push urged Chief Minister M K Stalin to
enact a special law to curb this menace.
While Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) President Thol Thirumavalavan, MP, CPI(M) state secretary P Shanmugam and his CPI counterpart R Mutharasan, jointly called on Mr Stalin and submitted a memorandum, the Congress staged a token one-day fast at the party headquarters, Satyamurthi Bhavan.
Even though enacting a special statute against honour killing was a poll pledge of the DMK, the
Stalin government had not made any step in honouring that assurance in the last four years.
With the principal opposition ...