Days after the DMK has got into outrage in the wake of the death of a boy during erecting the party's flag, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President MK Stalin has on Monday urged the party cadres to accept his order and put an end to the culture of erecting banners and party flags. 

On August 20, 13-year-old boy Dinesh, who was at his 9th standard, was electrocuted to death in Villupuram while he was erecting the DMK flags for a party leader who was scheduled to attend a wedding. He was putting up the flags in Rahim Layout in the district. Dinesh was at home due to the lockdown and he was employed to erect the party flags in the area ahead of the wedding. It has been reported as senior DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister Ponmudi had attended the wedding. 

As the minister was attending the wedding, the DMK cadres in the district had hired a small agency to decorate the road near the wedding hall on Villupuram Mambalapattu Road for the minister's arrival. While Dinesh was erecting the flag, a live electric wire fell on him and he has died due to electrocution at the age of 13. The incident had shocked the entire state and ired the people as it has stirred major outrage against the ruling party as it has revealed the rampant prevailing of the banner culture in the state and even the DMK continues it, despite its promise to abolish the irking culture. 

Though the DMK leadership claims that the party has annulled the culture, it is still yet to keep allegiance to its word as the local level cadres are exercising the banner politics and such banners and flags were erected in many places without the consent from the local administration or from the police. Dinesh has become another victim of the apathy of the political leaders and local officials in taking measures to stop employing juveniles in the party works and to ensure the proper flow and maintenance of the electricity supply. 

Dinesh's death had angered his relatives and the demand had grown across the state to arrest and take action on responsible DMK cadres and the private agency who hired him for erecting the flags. However, it's yet to be known whether the police had taken against the cadres behind the incident. The outrage against the DMK had sparked after the party has failed to keep its promise after coming to power. It has promised to eradicate the banner culture following the death of Subhashree in 2019, a 23-year-old software engineer, who died after an illegal ADMK banner had collapsed on her. 

As the party has surfaced with outrage, Chief Minister MK Stalin has opened up over the incident and urged the party cadres to accept his order and stop this practice of banner culture immediately. On Monday, the Chief Minister took to Twitter and wrote, "I am deeply saddened to know that the banner culture continues in many places despite the repeated and firm orders to stop it. Party cadres have to accept my order and stop this practice immediately."