Chennai: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday attacked the DMK-Congress combine over “corruption and dynasty” and said only the AIADMK-BJP alliance can “protect” those who believe in the culture of Tamil Nadu.
Speaking to reporters after attending a road show here in support of BJP’s Thousand Lights candidate Khushbu Sundar for the April 6 Assembly elections, the senior leader appealed to the people of the state to ensure a ‘double engine’ government for Tamil Nadu’s development.
AIADMK, BJP and PMK are facing the polls as allies under the NDA banner.
“Only the AIADMK-BJP alliance can protect Tamil Nadu’s fishermen, unemployed youth, women and all those having faith in Tamil Nadu’s culture,” he said and appealed to the voters to choose the NDA candidates with a massive majority.
The Home Minister lauded Chief Minister K Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam for taking the state on the path of development and for the effective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying Tamil Nadu has been at the ‘forefront’ of the fight against the contagion.
“Tamil Nadu’s growth is possible only when we defeat the corrupt and dynastic DMK and Congress,” he said.
The development initiatives launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi across the country should come to Tamil Nadu to fulfill the dreams of the ‘great’ late chief ministers M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa, both AIADMK stalwarts, had for Tamil Nadu, he added.
Earlier, the BJP veteran travelled atop an open van with Sundar and AIADMK candidates from nearby constituencies at the well-attended roadshow.
Amid chants of ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ and fluttering flags of alliance parties being carried by the respective outfits, Shah attended the road show in the last leg of the campaign, which ends tomorrow, here.
BJP has fielded Sundar, an actor-politician, from this constituency, where she will be taking on DMK’s Dr N Ezhilan.
Elections to 234 Assembly seats in Tamil Nadu are scheduled on April and the counting of votes will be done on May 2.
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It is not just that the DMK alone has corrupt elements. It is just that the Centre is preventing the CBI, ED from probing corrupt BJP members and supporters. THis gives a false impression that the BJP is very clean. There are many examples:
– The CAG themselves found that the GUjarat Govt in 2010 gave undue gains to 3 business houses by short billing and not raising bills worth 1400 crores
– The BJP Govt at centre blatantly ignored a major wrongdoing by a celebrated Rajasthan leader who gave an affidavit to a UK Court supporting Lalit Modi’s residence application. All this when LaMo was a fugitive from Indian law. Modi and company simply shrugged it off even after the leader accepted that she gave the affidavit
– What about the shocking case of Parivar supporters helping the ISI spy on Army units by running illegal telephone exchanges in MP ?
– A prominent Rajasthan BJP leader issued shares in a HOtel venture and the Rs 10 share was bought for an astounding RS 95000 each by an offshore entity connected to LaMo. If a Congressman had done this, the ED would have been at his door next day. THis case has been hushed up by centre.
Let the probes against PC, Rahul etc go on , but what about interrogating and arresting these BJP corrupts ? This won’t happen because the centre is holding back the agencies.
Put simply, the BJP is as corrupt as any party in India’s politics.