Chennai: DMK Youth wing leader Udhyanidhi son of DMK Chief MK Stalin was arrested in Nagapattinam district on Friday in Tamil Nadu. The police arrested Udhyanidhi, when he launched the party’s 75 day campaign ahead for the 2021 Assembly elections. The campaign titled “Vidiyalai Nokki Stalinin Kural” (Stalin’s voice for dawn) will cover all 234 assembly segments ahead of assembly elections in the state due in April-May.

The police said the event violated Covid-19 curbs; there are no permissions for political meetings. Earlier, he organized an event at the birth place of former party chief M Karunanidhi, in Tirukkuvalai, in Tiruvarur district. Udhyanidhi said he had set out on the campaign, to take the message of his father to various parts of the state to end the “darkness that has engulfed Tamil Nadu”.

According to the DMK press note, party’s Women’s Wing leader and Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi, former Ministers K Ponmudi and I Periyasamy among others will tour different parts of the state as part of the campaign. “The leaders will explain to people party president’s slogan of walking towards a new dawn by rejecting the ruling AIADMK’s atrocities and administrative lapses,” it said.

DMK Principal Secretary K N Nehru said 15 top leaders of the party will address 1,500 meetings in 75 days across the state at all 234 constituencies while Stalin is expected to join the campaign trail in January. Nehru, a former minister, said because of orders banning large crowds for political gathering among others given the covid-19 pandemic, Stalin was expected to hold election rallies from January. “But he is in touch with people through video conference. There will be a crowd if he goes for public meetings… after January he will start the campaigning,” he said.