Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary P. Muralidhar Rao said the attack on party’s Ramanathapuram candidate Durai Kannan at Devipattinam on Sunday night indicated that ‘jihadi terrorism’ was growing in Tamil Nadu.
Condemning the attack by a group of people in the Muslim-dominated Devipattinam area, he said here on Monday that the attack went contrary to AIADMK general secretary and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s claim that everything was normal in Tamil Nadu and the law and order was well under control.
The recent attacks on RSS and BJP leaders in Vellore, Ambur, Coimbatore and Ramanathapuram clearly showed that jihadi terrorism was on the rise in the State and the AIADMK government failed to take stern action against it. Those who carried out the attacks should realise that the BJP was not a small party but the largest party in India and had the capacity to contain them, he said.
On AIADMK’s election manifesto, Mr. Rao wanted to know what the party was doing all these five years to come out with the promises now. All these years, the State government was busy selling liquor as it had opened 5,000 liquor shops. The government opened 1,000 shops per year and this was the biggest achievement of the Jayalalithaa government, he said.
There was acute drinking water crisis in several villages but liquor was available round the clock, he said. Both the AIADMK and the DMK indulged in corruption and ruined the State in the last 50 years after alternatively coming to power, he alleged and called for a change in this election.
Referring to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s remarks that the Congress and the DMK were like twins and natural allies, he said the two parties were partners in corruption.
He said party president Amit Shah wanted to convey to the Devendra Kula Vellalars that the Centre was considering their demand to call all the seven sub-sects of Scheduled Castes under one common name ‘Devendras’.
