TN Will Only Say ‘Get Out’ To Arrogant BJP: CM
Anna was the conscience of the people of Tamil Nadu, he said, suggesting that they would not support the BJP even if it roped in the AIADMK for support, and added that Anna was remembered not only on his anniversaries but all the time because he lived on forever.
Chennai: After its series of betrayals through Hindi imposition, cultural invasion and refusal to give the due funds to Tamil Nadu, even if the arrogant and dominant BJP came to the State leaning on the support of traitors, the people in the State of C N Annadurai would only say ‘get out,’ Chief Minister M K Stalin said, indicating that there was no scope for the AIADMK-BJP alliance to win the coming Assembly elections.
In a message put out to mark the 57th death anniversary of Annadurai, the DMK founder and former Chief Minister referred as ‘Anna’ by his acolytes, on Tuesday, Stalin said the DMK governments had perpetuated the memory of Annadurai by naming roads, flyovers, libraries and bus stands beside erecting his statues all over the State and averred that Anna continued to rule the State even now.
Anna was the conscience of the people of Tamil Nadu, he said, suggesting that they would not support the BJP even if it roped in the AIADMK for support, and added that Anna was remembered not only on his anniversaries but all the time because he lived on forever.
Marking the anniversary, Stalin led 1000s of his party acolytes in a procession in Chennai and the DMK recalled the innovative way the DMK observed the anniversary in 1976 when the nation was under Emergency declared by the Union Government, led by the late Indira Gandhi.
Since stringent press censorship under Emergency would not allow newspapers to publish the names of those arrested and jailed under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA), the DMK, led by M Karunanidhi, carried a list of party leaders who did not pay tributes to Anna on his death anniversary. That was the DMK’s way of driving home the point that those people were in jail and among them was the name of M K Stalin.
A party statement said that it was Anna who implemented the two language formula for school education that was still in force much to the chagrin of the Union BJP government that was refusing to release funds due for Tamil Nadu under the Samagra Sihiksha Abhiyan (SSA) citing the refusal to teach Hindi in schools as the reason for withholding funds.
The DMK also attributed the development in Tamil Nadu, in comparison with other Hindi speaking States of the country, to the two-language formula and pointed out that many migrant workers from States like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh were trooping to Tamil Nadu looking for employment.
