Indus Valley Times

Tamil Nadu,Sept 26 :  Tamil Nadu minister and DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin took a dig at the AIADMK and the BJP after the former decided to walk out from the NDA alliance. He said both parties may come together to contest elections again as “one is a robber and the another is a thief”.

He asserted that despite the AIADMK severing its ties with the BJP, the DMK would emerge victorious in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

“KP Munusamy has announced that the AIADMK-BJP alliance is over. Irrespective of whether you (AIADMK) have an alliance with the BJP or not, it is the DMK which is going to win. You cannot deceive people. Your own AIADMK cadres are not going to trust this. Why? This is because there are ED cases pending against your former Chief Minister and ministers,” Udhayanidhi Stalin said at a DMK youth wing public meeting in Krishnagiri district.

“This is not happening for the first time. They (AIADMK and BJP) might pretend to fight but during the time of elections, they will come together again because one is a robber and the other is a thief,” he said.

The AIADMK broke its ties with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Monday after a meeting at the party headquarters in Tamil Nadu, saying that the BJP had been making “unnecessary remarks about AIADMK’s former leaders”.

The move to call it quits comes days after senior AIADMK leaders called on BJP chief JP Nadda in Delhi and informed him about the ground situation in the state arising out of the BJP’s Tamil Nadu chief K Annamalai’s “aggressive style of politics”.

They then sought an apology from Annamalai for making a remark about Dravidian icon CN Annadurai and demanded he be replaced if he didn’t apologise.

The AIADMK, led by former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, said it would lead a separate front for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Annamalai had refused to apologise for his controversial remarks about the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and maintained that there was no problem between his party and the AIADMK. He claimed that he had not spoken ill of Annadurai and had only recounted an incident from 1956.

According to BJP sources, the party will not ask the AIADMK to reconsider its decision to break away from the NDA and is firmly backing Annamalai.

AIADMK had partnered with the BJP during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly election as allies.

-PTI