Things couldn’t have gotten more dramatic in Chennai, when cops arrived at Stalin’s residence, picked up the leader of Opposition and took him away to Thanjavur. A defiant Udhayanidhi, detained in a police van, with a smile on his face, said “I don’t fear these people, they are a bunch of idiots. We will handle it legally.” His father, upon his release, called the ruling government “an arrogant establishment” and the Chief Minister a “dummy.”