DMK MP from Tamil Nadu, A Raja, on Sunday courted a singular controversy by reputedly stirring the demand for a ‘separate Tamil Nadu’. The assertion used to be slammed by many from the Opposition as being an announcement promoting separatist sentiments. What used to be grand more just appropriate-searching used to be that the assertion used to be made with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on stage.
Talking at an occasion for native physique workers of the DMK in Namakkal, Raja said, “I beg the Centre to grant us autonomy. “We shall no longer cessation our war till Tamil Nadu will get affirm autonomy.
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He said that their ideological leader, Periyar, advocated a Tamil Nadu ruin free India. “Nonetheless, now we maintain got saved that demand apart to this level for the sake of democracy and cohesion of India. I beg Top Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah no longer to force us to revive the demand. Please give us affirm autonomy,” he said.
— A RAJA (@dmk_raja) July 3, 2022
He said that his demand used to be left on the support of by the Centre economically as successfully as by methodology of employment alternatives. “Till the time we’re in India, Tamils is no longer going to compile any financial development nor any segment in jobs,” he said.
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The feedback were slammed by BJP leaders, who said that the DMK used to be harbouring separatist ambitions. BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla tweeted: “It’s one ingredient to oppose a occasion at Centre however while doing so will you initiate opposing conception of One India itself?”
DMK MP A Raja in presence of CM Stalin, says “Don’t make us demand separate Tamil Nadu”
No outrage by Stalin ji on this TUKDE MINDSET
It’s one ingredient to oppose a occasion at Centre however while doing so will you initiate opposing conception of One India itself?
BJP virodh me desh virodh? pic.twitter.com/K3gq1IhaeZ
— Shehzad Jai Hind (@Shehzad_Ind) July 4, 2022