BJP State president Tamilisai Soundararajan on Sunday accused DMK working president M.K. Stalin of “maligning” the Narendra Modi government and said there was nothing wrong in “saffronising” the country.
Mr. Stalin had charged that the BJP-led government at the Centre was attempting to usher in saffronisation.
“It is better if the country goes the ‘kavi’ (saffron) way than the ‘pavi’ (sinner) way,” she said responding to a question from journalists here. However much Mr. Stalin may try to malign the BJP government, people would not buy into his malicious propaganda, she said.
In response to another question, she said that the birthday celebrations of DMK president M. Karunanidhi was more political than anything else. But that would not have any impact on the upcoming presidential election as the BJP had the numbers to see its candidate through.
The BJP leader said that it was for the AlADMK (Amma) cadre to decide if their deputy general secretary T.T.V. Dhinakaran should continue to lead the party. But if he were to assume political office, people would not accept him, she said, adding that even State Ministers were hesitant to accept his leadership.
