The Narendra Modi-led BJP government, which betrayed Tamils and Tamil Nadu in all pressing issues that seriously affected the State over the past five years, was posing a serious threat to India’s secular fabric, MDMK general secretary Vaiko said on Monday.
Launching his electioneering in the district’s Tirunelveli Lok Sabha constituency in support of DMK candidate S. Gnana Thiraviyam, Mr. Vaiko said the Modi-led government at the Centre had always wantonly sacrificed Tamil Nadu’s welfare in Cauvery and Mullaperiyar water-sharing disputes, life-threatening issues such as methane, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project and neutrino projects, NEET and killing of Tamil fishermen by Sri Lankan navy.
Unfortunately, the “corrupt” Tamil Nadu Government, which should have resisted the Centre’s sinister designs, had digested this gross injustice and had been behaving like a slave to the Union Government.
In Tamil Nadu, the “corrupt” State Government had hunted down 13 anti-Sterlite protestors in a bid to threaten and silence the agitators like the Union Government crushed the dissent voices at the national level.
“Now, the communal BJP and the corrupt AIADMK have joined hands in a bid to get your votes. We don’t need communalism and corruption that need to be weeded out with your votes. Gift the communal forces and their allies a crushing defeat in the Lok Sabha polls,” Mr. Vaiko appealed.
After kick-starting his election campaign at Vickramasingapuram, Mr. Vaiko campaigned at Ambasamudram, Kallidaikurichi, Veeravanallur, Cheranmahadevi, Pattamadai, Melapalayam and Palayamkottai before winding up the campaign in Tirunelveli Town.
