Chennai: BJP national president J P Nadda on Saturday said his party’s alliance with the AIADMK would continue for the assembly elections, due in Tamil Nadu in a few months.
Both parties would face the polls together, he said, addressing a public meeting, his first in the run up to the Assembly elections expected in April or early May.
He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi facilitated projects like the defence corridor for Tamil Nadu while the state was ‘ignored’ during the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance regime.
Praising Tamil as the world’s oldest language, Nadda, who is in Chennai on a one day visit, said when the right person assumed the right place, it led to right decisions.
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed the top office, a ‘safe destiny’ was assured for the nation and Tamil Nadu as well, he said.
Be it projects like the defence corridor or allocation of funds for Tamil Nadu, the situation changed only after the BJP came to power at the Centre, he said.
Nadda recalled that Modi had quoted a couplet from ‘Tirukkural’ to soldiers at Ladakh and also cited the Prime Minister’s ‘Yaadum Oorey’ reference of Tamil poet Kaniyan Poongundranar in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in 2019.
Dwelling on Tamil, he said the Tamil people had a unique combination of entrepreneurship, economic and cultural ethos.
The BJP top leader’s Tamil pitch assumes significance Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had some days back alleged that the saffron party had no respect for Tamil language and culture.
