Accusing the two Dravidian parties of pushing the State backwards during their nearly 50-year rule, BJP president Amit Shah has urged the voters to choose between a pro-development BJP and the “corrupt” AIADMK and DMK.
Addressing an election meeting in Pattukkottai here on Wednesday, he said, “Both the Dravidian parties are corrupt and there is no difference in the degree of corruption between them. They are competing with one another in looting the State.”
Stating that people had no option but vote alternately for the two Dravidian parties, he said that now they could choose to vote for his party, which he claimed, has provided a clean and transparent government at the Centre under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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While the DMK was mired in the 2G, Aircel-Maxis and other scams, Congress was the fountainhead of corruption, he charged, and added that the AIADMK leader and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was also jailed on corruption charges.
Safety of fishermen
Decrying the DMK’s dynastic politics, Mr. Shah claimed that a change would help the people see the difference in governance. “During the past two years of BJP rule in the Centre, no Indian fisherman has been killed on the high seas, while during the previous UPA rule, more than 500 fishermen were attacked and killed by Sri Lanka. That is proof enough of our efficiency and deliverance,” he said.
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Instead of implementing developmental schemes in cooperation with the Centre, the State government was stonewalling various welfare programmes being charted by the Centre, Mr. Shah claimed.
‘No difference
between Dravidian majors when it comes to degree
of corruption’