DMK president MK Stalin on Sunday requested Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to sew an alliance in opposition to the BJP on the nationwide stage, just like the mix led by his celebration in Tamil Nadu and accused the Centre of unleashing a ’chemical’ and ’cultural’ assault in opposition to the state. Addressing a public assembly right here for the April 6 Assembly polls, Stalin alleged India was ”suffocating due to the communal, fascist” forces and Gandhi had an enormous duty to shield the nation in opposition to it.
“Here, I have a kind request to Rahul Gandhi… No, a firm request. When we talk over the phone, sometimes I call him [Rahul] ‘Sir’. He would then correct me, he would ask me to call him brother. My brother Rahul, here is my humble and heartfelt request to you…,” Stalin mentioned.
The rally right here was the primary during which leaders of all of the constituents of the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance took half and it consists of Congress celebration’s Rahul Gandhi. The ruling AIADMK is dealing with the polls in alliance with the Pattali Makkal Katchi, the BJP, the previous union minister GK Vaasan led Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) and different smaller events.
“India is being destroyed in the clutches of a Fascist government now. You have the responsibility to protect India at this time. Let it be assembly or Lok Sabha elections, it was the united secular front in Tamil Nadu that ensured a washout of the BJP front. The same is going to repeat again now in this election,” he added.
The BJP couldn’t win even a single Lok Sabha seat from Tamil Nadu within the 2019 Parliamentary polls as secular events, led by the DMK got here collectively, he mentioned. Also, the following Assembly polls can be a ’washout’ for the BJP in Tamil Nadu in view of his celebration led Secular Progressive Alliance, he claimed and cited opinion polls that favoured his party-led mix.
Stalin mentioned the BJP bought solely a 37 per cent vote share within the Lok Sabha polls in 2019, which meant that the rest, 63 per cent of individuals opposed it, however they voted for various events. There was no coalition on the nationwide stage -similar to the one in Tamil Nadu- in opposition to the saffron celebration within the final Lok Sabha polls, he mentioned.
Hence, Rahul Gandhi ought to take the duty to sew an alliance in opposition to the BJP on the nationwide stage. The Congress chief ought to take efforts instantly in the direction of constructing such an alliance, he added. Addressing Rahul as brother, Stalin mentioned the Congress MP had informed him not to deal with him as ’sir.’ According to the Election Commission information, seven nationwide events collectively secured 69 per cent votes within the 2019 LS polls which incorporates the BJP’s 37.76 per cent, Congress celebration’s 19.7 per cent, CPI’s 0.59 per cent and CPI (M)’s 1.77 per cent.
Citing Hydrocarbon, Methane extraction initiatives in addition to others, Stalin mentioned such initiatives have been a ’chemical assault’ by the Centre on Tamil Nadu. Kudankulam nuclear energy challenge, the Chennai-Salem Express Highway and the Neutrino Observatory challenge have been the opposite initiatives he talked about to declare the ’chemical’ assault.
The DMK chief alleged ’cultural assault’ by ’imposition’ of Hindi and Sanskrit, the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test and filling vacancies in Tamil Nadu by recruiting folks belonging to northern states. Only the DMK might get up to such assaults and AIADMK has proved by its conduct over the previous 5 years that it can not tackle the Centre, he alleged.
As the BJP couldn’t get a foothold in Tamil Nadu, it was attempting to acquire area by intimidating the AIADMK, he alleged. The DMK chief additionally accused the Saffron celebration of hatching a conspiracy ’in all of the issues’ following late AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa’s demise in 2016.
Stalin, additionally for the primary time accused the Centre of not taking any initiative to help the burial of late DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi within the Marina beachfront in Chennai. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Ministers like Amit Shah and Nirmala Sitharaman spoke to him to condole his father Karunanidhi’s demise in 2018.
When they sought to know if he wanted any help, he conveyed to them that the DMK had petitioned the AIADMK-led Tamil Nadu authorities to allot area in Marina to bury their beloved chief and sought help. The Tamil Nadu authorities ’didn’t give permission,’ the Centre didn’t take any initiative and Modi too didn’t give a thought to it, he claimed.
Karunanidhi died on August 7, 2018 and he was buried in Marina after the matter went to the Madras High Court. The election was not a couple of mere regime change however for redeeming self-respect and reclaim misplaced rights, he mentioned.
Both Chief Minister Okay Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam weren’t ’involved’ concerning the folks they usually eyed solely making a living by ’corruption’ and have been ’subservient’ to the Centre and BJP, he alleged.
