Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday drew an analogy between the AIADMK and the masks worn to assist stop unfold of the COVID-19 pandemic, alleging it was solely the RSS and BJP behind the ruling celebration, “a mere mask.” In a grand public assembly right here, the first in which prime leaders of all events in the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance in Tamil Nadu got here collectively, Gandhi stated lately one might see individuals sporting masks all over the place, making recognising these behind them troublesome. The masks hid ‘something’ and one couldn’t work out if an individual reciprocated a pleasant smile, he stated, including the comparability was essential to perceive the ruling AIADMK.
Seeking individuals’s help for the SPA for the April 6 Assembly polls, he focused AIADMK, BJP’s electoral accomplice. “This is not the old AIADMK, please do not be confused.
This is the AIADMK with a mask on top of it. It looks like the AIADMK. But if you take off the mask, you will find it is not the AIADMK behind the mask, it is the RSS, BJP behind the mask,” he alleged.
The ‘old AIADMK’ is lifeless and gone and it was completed, he claimed, hinting at the finish of the period of celebration supremo J Jayalalithaa, who died in 2016 and who had opposed the BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha polls. “It is now a hollow shell which is controlled by the RSS and BJP and the people of Tamil Nadu have to be careful and understand what is behind this mask and why this mask is on.” Though no Tamilian would love to bow in entrance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi or contact the ft of Union Home Minister Amit Shah or RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, he requested why Chief Minister and AIADMK prime chief Okay Palaniswami ‘submitted’ himself to them when such subservience went towards the Tamil tradition and custom.
Though Palaniswami doesn’t want to bow in entrance of Modi, he has to achieve this since the Prime Minister ‘controlled’ the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI. “The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has been corrupt and he has no choice,” he alleged.
However, the ‘price’ for this ‘surrender’ is paid solely by the individuals of Tamil Nadu, he stated. It was a ‘huge price’ and Tamil language, tradition and historical past is beneath assault and Palaniswami is quiet regardless of such an assault from the Centre, he alleged.
Tamil Nadu’s largest power was small, medium and micro companies and it was the manufacturing ‘capital’ of the nation and automobiles, together with automobiles and ambulances pushed throughout the nation, had been made in the state, he stated. Demonetisation and Goods and Services Tax had been each an assault on Tamil innovation and manufacturing, he alleged.
Though tens of millions of Tamil individuals ‘lost’ their jobs and livelihood, the CM didn’t query Modi over it. Similarly, Palaniswami additionally didn’t utter a phrase towards the farm legal guidelines, the new schooling coverage, designed to ‘harm’ Tamil pursuits and in reference to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, he claimed.
He gave a ‘blank cheque’ to Modi and Shah to do no matter they needed regardless of their divisive insurance policies, he alleged. Against such a background, Gandhi stated he was positive the Tamil individuals would no extra tolerate the ‘assault’ and made it amply clear that DMK president M Okay Stalin was going to grow to be the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
People have already determined to make Stalin the CM and the election was solely a course of to ‘formalise’ their resolution, he claimed. But the struggle wouldn’t finish with the victory of the secular alliance in Tamil Nadu and by halting the RSS-BJP forces from gaining a foothold in the state, he stated.
“They have unlimited resources, unlimited money.They will try again and again and the only way to stop them is first to stop them in Tamil Nadu and then remove them (from power at the Centre) from Delhi.” The ‘damage’ from proper wing forces was not confined solely to Tamil Nadu, however the complete of the nation and it consists of destruction of democracy and unbiased establishments,the thought behind it being serving to a number of mates of the Prime Minister, the Congress MP alleged. In the finish, “it is only a matter of money for them”, however for Congress and its allies, it was all about ‘our great nation’ and its tradition, languages and custom, he stated.
Gandhi stated he was satisfied that “we are going to win both these fights (TN Assembly polls and one against BJP and dislodging it from power at the Centre).” He praised the Tamil individuals for reciprocating love and respect a number of occasions extra. However, the RSS and Modi doesn’t perceive this side about the Tamils due to ‘arrogance,’ however could be compelled to achieve this after the ballot outcomes, he stated.
DMK president M Okay Stalin, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee chief Okay S Alagiri, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi chief Thol Thirumavalavan, MDMK chief Vaiko and Left celebration leaders had been amongst those that participated.
