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Piyush Goyal lauds Jayalalithaa govt, state BJP toes different line

Venkaiah slams Congress: Meanwhile, Venkaiah slammed the Congress party for attempting to politicise the attack on dalits in Gujarat.

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu BJP appears to toe a different line from that of the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre, that too despite Union power minister Piyush Goyal post-Assembly election finding Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa “accessible”.

Though Mr Goyal who raised “Jayalalithaa inaccessible” issue during the May elections, finally realised that she was indeed “accessible” when he flew down to Chennai and called on her mid-July, it seems BJP state president Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan is unlikely to change her stand in opposing the state government. Tamilisai’s latest gibe is not using Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photos in the advertisements released by the state government for the Chennai Metro Rail Phase I extension project (from Washermanpet to Wimco Nagar) on Saturday.

But at the function, Union urban development minister M. Venkaiah Naid showeredpraises on the Tamil Nadu government led by Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa and said Narendra Modi is impressed with the work done by. Jayalalthaa and her council of Ministers. “Despite economic slowdown, India remains a bright spot. And Tamil Nadu is a bright spot in the country,” he said, while extending the Centre’s full support to the state.

Venkaiah slams Congress: Meanwhile, Venkaiah slammed the Congress party for attempting to politicise the attack on dalits in Gujarat. “The Congress is trying to project the BJP as anti-dalit. Political parties should act with responsibility,” he said while speaking to reporters at the airport here on Saturday. “This is cheap politics,” he said on former Union minister P. Chidambaram’s remarks on the unrest in Kashmir following the killing of Commander of Kashmiri militant group Hizbul Mujahideen Burhan Muzaffar Wani.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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