Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday launched a sharp attack on the BJP-led Centre, accusing it of repeatedly betraying the state and ignoring its key demands.
(Photo:ANI)
Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an ‘election season bird frequenting Tamil Nadu’, espousing duplicitous love for Tamil language, Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Friday alleged that it is habitual for the NDA to betray the state.
In a hard-hitting social media post, hours ahead of Modi’s NDA rally at Madurantakam near Chennai, the Chief Minister listed a litany of ‘betrayals’ against Tamil Nadu, including the unkept promise of AIIMS Hospital in Madurai and withholding of Rs 3,458 crore for School Education under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan programme.
Advertisement
“When will we be able to witness the eighth wonder of the world, the promised AIIMS in Madurai, being built inch by inch for the last 10 years by the Union BJP Government?” he asked the Prime Minister, “Frequenting Tamil Nadu only during election season.”
Advertisement
“When will the Rs 3,458 Cr #SamagraShiksha fund be released? When will you open up your mouth and pledge that constituencies in Tamil Nadu will not get reduced in #Delimitation? When will the atrocities of the Governor, functioning like an agent of the BJP, will come to an end? When will your government, espousing duplicitous love for Tamil far exceeding that of the Tamils, will extend to legitimate funds for the Tamil language?” were some of the questions he had posed to Modi on his ‘X’ handle.
He was reacting to Modi’s post about the Madurantakam rally in which the Prime Minister said, “Tamil Nadu is with NDA. Tamil Nadu has decided to bid farewell to the corrupt DMK government. The NDA’s governance record and commitment to regional aspirations are striking a chord with the people of the state.”
On the MGNREGA being renamed and states forced to bear 40 per cent of the financial burden to wipe out the livelihood of the rural poor, he asked “When will you assure that #VBGRAMG will be given up and MGNREGA will continue?” adding “When will relief funds for natural disaster be released and when will clearance be accorded for Hosur airport and Metro projects in Madurai and Coimbatore?”
On the Keezhadi archaeological excavation report, establishing that Tamil civilisation was the most urbanised and oldest in the sub-continent, Stalin asked as to when it would be released. Further questioning ”when NEET exemption, the unanimous demand of Tamil Nadu, would be granted to Tamil Nadu,” he said the state would hand out a resounding defeat to the habitually betraying BJP alliance.
Advertisement
