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DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Sunday charged that right-wing and reactionary forces were moving with unprecedented vigour pursuing the BJP’s 3rd consecutive triumph [at the nationalist level], but asserted neither Union Home Minister Amit Shah nor the full Sangh Parivar would beryllium capable to triumph successful Tamil Nadu.
Reacting to Mr. Shah’s remark that Tamil Nadu would beryllium the BJP’s adjacent people aft Bihar [Assembly canvass victory], Mr. Stalin said: “This is Tamil Nadu. You bash not recognize our character,” quoting histrion Sathyaraj’s celebrated dialog from the movie 24 Mani Neram: “En characteriye purinjika mattingireye.”
Accusing the right-wing forces of spreading lies and regressive ideas disguised arsenic honey-coated pills to deceive the people, helium said the DMK’s ideology was an antidote to the BJP’s politics.
“When they person nary qualms astir telling lies, wherefore should we hesitate to talk the truth?” helium asked, addressing the DMK younker wing’s North Region gathering successful Tiruvannamalai. Mr. Stalin said the DMK not lone bore the work of safeguarding Tamil Nadu and its people, but besides of protecting India’s integrity and pluralism.
“DMK is the lone determination enactment waging an ideological conflict against the BJP, and Tamil Nadu is the lone State the enactment (BJP) has been incapable to win. That is wherefore Mr. Amit Shah is irritated. It is not conscionable Amit Shah; adjacent the full Sanghi service cannot win here,” helium declared.
Mr. Stalin added, “If anyone approaches america with love, we volition clasp them. If they attack america with arrogance, we volition not bend, but volition look them head-on.”
He repeated the connection to underline that the DMK would not beryllium cowed down by threats from the BJP.
Offering proposal to younker helping leaders, Mr. Stalin said past posed a question to each generation, and would hide those who failed to reply it. “However, past volition not hide the procreation that not lone finds the reply but besides rewrites the question. You indispensable make history,” helium said.
‘Meet the people’
He besides responded to enactment younker helping person and Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin’s petition that much younker beryllium fixed opportunities successful the 2026 Assembly election. “Meet the radical and unrecorded among them. Do not expect comfort. Only those who enactment hard volition gain a spot successful the party,” helium said.
Earlier, Mr. Udhayanidhi excessively said his enactment would not beryllium cowed down by the threats of Mr. Shah, and the cadre successful achromatic and reddish shirts were acceptable to look specified threats connected the ground. “When Anna [C.N. Annadurai] launched the DMK successful 1949, helium said the nonsubjective of the enactment was to reason the domination of Delhi. Since then, the DMK has ever been astatine the forefront of protecting the rights of Tamil Nadu. Only our enemies person changed. As our Chief Minister has said, Tamil Nadu has ever remained retired of Delhi’s control,” helium said.
Mr. Udhayanidhi remarked portion the BJP mightiness beryllium an “elephant connected the rampage”, Mr. Stalin was the goad (angusan) that would rein it in. “Both Prime Minister Modi and Mr. Shah cognize this. Realising they cannot triumph Tamil Nadu, they person joined hands with aged and caller slaves to situation us,” helium alleged.
He took a excavation astatine the stampede that occurred erstwhile crowds thronged to spot histrion Vijay, laminitis of the Tamizhaga Vetrai Kazhagam, successful Karur. “An representation is being created that the younker are uncontrollable. But the DMK younker helping is different. Nothing tin beryllium achieved simply by attracting 1 crore younker if they deficiency discipline,” helium said.
