The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) are involved in a proxy war taking advantage of the Assembly elections, said T. K. Rangarajan, Rajya Sabha member of the CPI (M).
The Narendra Modi Government very much depended on the 37 Lok Sabha members and 13 Rajya Sabha members of the AIADMK on various counts.
All the ill-talk about the AIADMK regime in the State by the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues were only for the sake of elections, Mr. Rangarajan told presspersons here on Monday.
The Prime Minister and his Ministers launched blistering attack against the Jayalalithaa regime and condemned it as the most corrupt one in the entire country in the election meetings.
If the BJP was serious about these allegations, than why it continued to have AIADMK representative M. Thambidurai as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, he asked.
Referring to the statement of the BJP leaders and Central Ministers favouring a like-minded government in the State which would cooperate with the Centre for enjoying the fruits of the Central Government schemes, Mr. Rangarajan said that all the BJP ruled states had not made any progress in any field.
States such as Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Haryana had not attracted much investment.
The Modi government had not implemented any of the assurances the BJP made during the Lok Sabha elections. The problem confronting the Tamil Nadu fishermen had not been solved so far.
He also criticised the DMK for soft pedalling towards Modi. The DMK too wanted to be in the good book of Mr. Modi and hence in Mr. Karunanidhi was not coming out openly against Modi government, he said.
Mr. Rangarajan criticised both the DMK and AIADMK regimes for not taking any initiative for checking the unemployment problem.
Except the Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited (TNPL) in Pugalur, no major industry was set up in the State in the last five decades, he alleged.
He said that the DMDK-People’s Welfare Front alliance had evoked over-whelming response.
Irrespective of the poll predictions, the alliance would register a resounding win in the elections, he added.
Mr. Rangarajan addressed election meetings in Jalagandapuram (Edappadi constituency), Seelanayakkanpatti (Salem South) and Kandapatti bypass (Salem West) in support of the nominees of DMDK and PWF.
