The seven convicts - S. Nalini, Murugan, Santhan, A.G. Perarivalan, Jayakumar, Robert Payas, and P. Ravichandran - have been in jail since 1991 in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Stalin asked Presient ram Nath Kovind to direct the remission of their sentence and their release.
The Madras High Court has set aside the breach of privilege proceedings initiated against DMK President M.K. Stalin and 18 other party MLAs for waving gutkha packets, banned in the state, on the floor of the Tamil Nadu Assembly in 2017.