Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday literally tore into allegations made by the DMK-led Tamil Nadu Government that the Central Government was not offering any welfare measures to the people in the State and was putting spokes on the Dravidian land’s progress.
The DMK Government is blocking all welfare projects being introduced by the Central Government for Tamil Nadu. What the DMK and its alliance partners including the Congress were doing is creating rift among the people, said the Prime Minister while addressing a mammoth rally organised by the BJP at Thoothukudi.
“In the past we saw a Chief Minister struggling hard to coronate his son as Chief Minister. Now we are seeing the son working to anoint his son as the Chief Minister of the State,” said Modi without naming the late patriarch M Karunanidhi, his son and present Chief Minister M K Stalin and the latter’s son Udhayanidhi. “The DMK and the Congress have only one agenda and that is to perpetrate dynastic politics,” said the Prime Minister.
The DMK had committed a faux pas by putting pictures of Chinese rockets in the billboards erected across the venue to make the people know that the space center coming up at Kulasekharapattinam was a project initiated by the State.
“They do not know that India has mastered the design and development of high power launch vehicles which would be launched from the new space station,” lambasted the Prime Minister.
Modi listed various development and infrastructure projects implemented by the Center for the welfare of Tamil Nadu. “Five years ago, only 21 lakh people had drinking water connection at their homes in Tamil Nadu.However, this count has increased to one crore now.
About 40 lakh women in Tamil Nadu have got a gas cylinder facility. Whenever India grows, Tamil Nadu grows,” said the Prime Minister.
He said the DMK was indulging in hate politics. “Some people are politicising Hindi and Tamil languages. However, the Union Minister of State L Murugan from Tamil Nadu has been elected MP from a Hindi-speaking State,” said the Prime Minister.
Modi also said the Stalin regime does not work for the State but only took false credit and it affixed its “stickers” on Central schemes. “Now they have crossed all limits. They have pasted the sticker of China to take credit for ISRO launchpad in Tamil Nadu. This is an insult to our country, an insult to our patriotic space scientists. The people of Tamil Nadu will punish the DMK for its treachery,” said the Prime Minister.
Earlier in the day he laid the foundation stone for the second space port of ISRO to be built at Kulasekhrapattanam and also various infrastructure projects at Thoothukkudi Port and many railway projects.
