Madurai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hit out at the DMK, claiming its ministers competed with one another in scams, contrary to former chief minister K Kamaraj known for his honesty, and accused the Dravidian party of doing nothing when the Congress “gave away” Katchatheevu to take ‘revenge’ against Tamil Nadu for not electing it to power.
Congress veteran Kamaraj set an example of honesty in politics, he said while addressing a massive NDA rally ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls.
He also accused the DMK government of “stealing” from the poor, youth, farmers and said such a corrupt dispensation had no moral right to continue.
Addressing the rally, NDA’s second after the Maduranthakam event near Chennai on January 23, he said the people have decided to bring NDA to power in Tamil Nadu. The AIADMK leads the NDA in Tamil Nadu and the constituents include BJP and AMMK.
Tamil Nadu, which kept Congress out of power in the state for six decades, was the first to become “Congress-mukt,” he said using his oft-repeated poll punchline to target the national party.
“For this, Congress took revenge against Tamil Nadu. It was Congress that gave away Katchatheevu, and then DMK didn’t do anything,” he said about the ceding of the islet to Sri Lanka by the government of India in the 1970s.
With the Congress in power at the Centre and DMK supporting them, their government issued a notification banning the famous bull-taming sport Jallikattu. “Through an ordinance, it was we who ensured Jallikattu could continue,” Modi said.
Flaying the DMK on corruption, Modi said that when it came to honesty in politics, former CM Kamaraj set an example for the whole country.
“But the DMK is an example of the exact opposite (and involved in) Rs 365 crore cash for transfer scam, Rs 900 crore cash for job scam, Rs 1000 crore cash for contract scam, and Rs 4,700 crore sand mining scam,” he alleged.
Usually, ministers competed with one another in good work but in the Dravidian party, they did so in scams, Modi alleged.
“But who are they stealing from…from the poor, from the youth, from the farmers. Such a corrupt government has no moral right to continue. That’s why the people of Tamil Nadu have decided to bring in an NDA government. We will give clean and efficient governance,” he said at the rally attended by key alliance party leaders, including AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami, AMMK founder TTV Dhinakaran and PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss.
Without naming Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, who while speaking at an event in Coimbatore had said the DMK was not afraid of the PM or his father, Modi remarked “recently, I heard that someone from the DMK said that they don’t fear my father or me.”
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