New Delhi: Artificial Intelligence ADMK Secretary General Edappadi K Palaniswami Tamil Nadu Chief Minister described on Sunday Stalinof DMK as a “slave” congressan ally of the state’s ruling party.His remarks came a day after Stalin said Palaniswami would “suffer the same fate as outgoing Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar” at the hands of the BJP.
The AIADMK and Kumar’s JD(U) are allies of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which leads the government at the Centre.Former Tamil Nadu chief minister Palaniswami said at a rally in Perunturai, “For 20 days, the Congress and DMK have been engaged in a war of words over seat allocation and related issues. In the end, the Congress intimidated the DMK and won 28 seats in the assembly elections.”“People have not forgotten that even when DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi was alive, the Congress terrorized the DMK, reduced it to slavery and forged an alliance with it. This was done by conducting raids while the seat-sharing talks were going on,” he said, referring to the period when the Congress was in power at the Centre.The AIADMK, on the other hand, is an “independent party” and has chosen to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections alone, he added.Now, in a bid to oust the DMK from power, the AIADMK has formed an alliance which he said is “strong, transparent and sincere” unlike the DMK-led alliance.The AIADMK and the BJP reunited in April last year. Stalin’s remarks, which drew comparisons between Palaniswami and Nitish Kumar, referred to the Bihar chief minister’s recent move to file a nomination to the Lok Sabha just months after leading the Janata Dal-BJP alliance to a landslide victory in Bihar after leading the state for nearly two decades.The opposition termed the development a “well-planned” move by the BJP.(with PTI input)
