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‘Dabba engine’ will not run in TN, says Stalin
The New Indian Express
|January 24, 2026
CHIEF MINISTER M K Stalin on Friday launched a sharp political attack on the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), rejecting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “double engine” pitch and reiterated a list of long-pending demands of the state which he said the centre continues to ignore.
Responding on ‘X’ to Modi’s remarks at the rally in Maduranthakam, Stalin said the “double-engine government” concept would not work in the state. “The so-called ‘double engine’ will not run in Tamil Nadu. That ‘dabba engine’ (waste engine) will not work here,” he said.
This story is from the January 24, 2026 edition of The New Indian Express.
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