GG News Bureau
Chennai, 9th Oct. M K Stalin, a DMK stalwart and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, was unanimously elected as party president at the party’s general council meeting on Sunday.
The DMK declared Stalin elected unopposed to the top party post in the newly formed general council, which met here.
Duraimurugan and T R Baalu, both party veterans, were unanimously elected as general secretary and treasurer, respectively.
All three leaders were re-elected to their positions for a second time.
When the Chief Minister arrived at the location of the general council meeting here, he was greeted enthusiastically by party workers.
Following elections to party posts at various levels across the state, the DMK’s 15th organizational polls resulted in the election of the party’s president, general secretary, and treasurer.
The 69-year-old top leader, the younger son of late party patriarch M Karunanidhi, has held several party positions, including treasurer and youth wing secretary.
Following Karunanidhi’s death in 2018, Stalin was unanimously elected as party president. Stalin is the DMK’s second president.
Karunanidhi became the DMK’s first president in 1969, the first time the position of president was created in the party. C N Annadurai, a Dravidian movement icon and DMK founder, was the party’s general secretary until his death in 1969. The DMK was founded in 1949.
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