Graft, scams, dynastic rule: Modi targets DMk

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday aggressively targeted the ruling DMK on multiple fronts, including corruption, scams, dynasty rule and “insensitivity” over people's sentiments on the Thirupparankundram lamp-lighting issue, and asserted that the devotees would eventually win.

- Press Trust Of Indi

Addressing a mega NDA election rally, Modi invoked the welfare-centric legacies of AADMK icons MG Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa and expressed confidence of NDA winning the upcoming Assembly polls and forming the government. The AIADMK leads NDA in Tamil Nadu.

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, AMMK founder TTV Dhinakaran and PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss were among the alliance party leaders who attended the mega event in this southern city and hailed the PM's leadership and lashed out at the DMK.

While Congress icon K Kamaraj was synonymous with honesty, the DMK, the grand old party's ally, stood for the “exact opposite”, he said. PM Modi alleged the Congress party took “revenge” on Tamil Nadu by “giving away Katchatheevu,” to Sri Lanka. Immediately following the conclusion of the rally, NDA leaders met and discussed issues including the next meeting of PM in TN.

Earlier, the PM inaugurated infrastructure projects worth over ₹4,400 crore in the state and said, “Our collective goal is a developed Tamil Nadu for a developed India. Every Indian is inspired to build a developed nation by 2047. Tamil Nadu will play a decisive role in shaping the nation’s destiny.”