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DMK younker helping person and Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin connected Sunday claimed that erstwhile AIADMK MLA K.A. Sengottaiyan had switched enactment (and joined Vijay’s TVK) lone connected the proposal of BJP person and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. He alleged the caput offices of respective governmental parties successful the State, including the AIADMK, were located successful Delhi.
Speaking astatine the sixth Puthiya Dravida Kazhagam league astatine Elumathur successful Erode district, Mr. Udhayanidhi claimed Mr. Shah’s residence functioned arsenic the “head office”, and quipped Mr. Sengottaiyan had not joined a antithetic party, but lone “another branch” of the aforesaid leadership. Taking a excavation astatine AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami, helium said, “It is not Anna, MGR oregon Jayalalithaa successful his bosom now. Only Amit Shah is.”
Mr. Udhayanidhi said that simply uttering the connection “Dravidam” was capable to “trigger threats from Delhi”. Recalling erstwhile Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s views, helium said, “Kalaignar would accidental that by connection we are Tamils, by contention we are Dravidians and by nationality we are Indians.”
Neither Periyar [E V Ramasamy] nor Karunanidhi had coined the connection “Dravidam”. Despite wide research, “some groups proceed to disturbance anger”, a inclination helium alleged present extended to Governor R.N. Ravi. The AIADMK, contempt having ‘Dravida’ successful its name, has “forgotten Periyar and MGR”, helium claimed.
The Deputy Chief Minister asserted that nary governmental realignment could hinder the DMK’s prospects. He accused the BJP of pushing backmost socially progressive sections and attempting to divert the votes of the astir backward, oppressed and marginalised communities that traditionally supported the DMK. “The DMK volition support those votes,” helium said.
Calling for unity beyond caste and religion to prevention Tamil Nadu, Mr. Udhayanidhi said the DMK would enactment for the improvement of each sections. The enactment workers should strive for the DMK-led confederation to triumph much than 200 seats successful the 2026 Assembly elections.
