The ruling AIADMK today condoled the deaths of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, DMK president M Karunanidhi and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, hailing their work in their respective fields.
A meeting of the party's Executive Committe, a key decision-making body, also expressed grief over the deaths of "many hundreds of brothers and sisters" due to the rain fury in neighbouring Kerala and Karnataka.
The party hailed Vajpayee as an "unparalleled star" of Indian politics, and described Karunanidhi as a "veteran" political leader and a "great Tamil scholar."
Condoling the death of Karunanidhi, leader of its arch rival DMK till recently, the AIADMK said he was a "veteran political leader, a great scholar and former chief minister of Tamil Nadu."
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