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Chennai: MDMK general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Vaiko has urged Tamilnadu Chief Minister M K Stalin to release all the seven life convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. “Since the DMK is also demanding their release Stalin should order their release” Vaiko said. The issue of the release of the Rajiv convicts had been dominating the state's political scene now and then. The decision to release all the seven convicts was taken in line with the September six 2018 Supreme Court order. In 24 November 2020 Stalin had petitioned the Governor seeking the release of the seven life convicts citing the CBI's submission in the Supreme Court..