Chennai: Taking a cue from her party president Amit Shah’s move to dine with dalit families, BJP state president Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan has decided to have one meal a day at a dalit home for the next one year to know and understand their problems.
“I have decided to have a meal a day at a dalit’s home for next 365 days to know their problems and sufferings. I took this decision following our party president Amit Shah’s advise to party leaders to work closely with cadres and dailts. I thought it will be good to have a meal at dalit home for one time a day,” she told DC.
In fact, Mr Shah had lunch in a dalit’s home in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi constituency in Uttar Pradesh to mark second year anniversary of his party government at the centre on May 31. After attending her party’s national executive committee meeting in Allahabad last week, Dr Tamilisai returned to Chennai taking a vow to eat at dalit homes. She had her first meal at Thidir Nagar slum in Egmore on Wednesday.
On the next day, she visited her party’s dalit functionary Jeevanandam’s residence in Salem after addressing a public rally on her party’s two-year achievement at the Centre. Jeevanandam said that when she wanted to visit his house, he did not think she would have food.
