After Effects Of PM’s Visit To Tamil Nadu
Accusing the DMK of hiding behind the BJP, he said both the parties were surreptitiously in a league and that the people of the State would not put up with their acts and teach them a fitting lesson in the 2026 Assembly elections.
Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day sojourn in the State has become a talking point in the political arena with leaders trying to gain electoral advantage of the visit in different ways. For Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam president Vijay it came handy to launch a tirade against the ruling DMK and the BJP, while for BJP State president Nainar Nagenthiran it was an occasion to promote his party.
Issuing a statement on Monday, Vijay described the Prime Minister attending the event celebrating the past triumphs of King Rajendra Chola as a drama staged by DMK and BJP. If the 75-year-old DMK had honoured distinguished monarchs of the Chola dynasty like King Rajendra Chola properly, the BJP that had been working against the interests of the Tamil people would not have appropriated it now, he said.
Modi came down to Gangaikonda Cholapuram to announce the installation of statues for King Rajendra Chola and his father King Raja Raja Chola and also take a class for the people of the State on the triumphs of the Chola empire because the DMK did not play its part properly, he said.
The two-year old TVK, on the other hand, celebrated the past glory of Tamil kings and had even passed a resolution seeking the opening of a museum in Chennai highlighting the greatness of the regimes of the Chera, Chola and Pandyan dynasties, he said.
Accusing the DMK of hiding behind the BJP, he said both the parties were surreptitiously in a league and that the people of the State would not put up with their acts and teach them a fitting lesson in the 2026 Assembly elections.
The BJP that had refused to acknowledge the evidence obtained through the excavations in Keeladi to establish the antiquity of Tamil civilization had now come to celebrate the ancient Tamil King and his past glory, he said.
By failing in its duty to celebrate the greatness of the Chola kings in the past years, the DMK had pledged the interests of the State by allowing the BJP to appropriate the responsibility of paying homage to the ancient Tamil rulers, Vijay said.
Nagenthiran, on his part, came out with a statement eulogizing Narendra Modi and said his two-day visit was gainful for the State and listed the schemes that he launched at Thoothukudi, where he landed on Saturday night from Maldives.
Apart from inaugurating the expanded airport at Thoothukudi, which was taken up at a cost of Rs 452 crore, Modi declared open a slew of schemes, including the Rs 2,357 crore highway project between Cholapuram and Sethiathope, that totally accounted for Rs 4900 crore, he said.
The BJP leader projected Modi as a youthful energetic leader who attended back-to-back events in the State after concluding a rigorous foreign jaunt and also as one who was fond of Tamil Nadu as he referred to the past celebrities of the State in his speeches. He also gratefully acknowledged the Prime Minister allowing him to travel by his special flight.
