The BJP connected Sunday sounded the canvass bugle successful Tamil Nadu with party’s apical strategist and Union Home Minister Amit Shah predicting the triumph of the AIADMK-BJP conjugation successful the 2026 Assembly election.
Shah said conscionable similar 2024 marked past with the BJP and NDA partners clocking grounds wins crossed the Lok Sabha, Odisha, Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi polls, 2026 would awesome winds of alteration for Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
DMK spokesperson Syed Hafeezullah said the BJP whitethorn remotely triumph adjacent successful the US, but had nary accidental successful Tamil Nadu.
Arriving successful the authorities for a two-day gathering connected predetermination readying today, Shah took a swipe astatine Tamil Nadu CM and DMK president MK Stalin who precocious said the BJP could ne'er decision the Dravidian large successful its confederate bastion.
“Stalin says Shah cannot decision the DMK. The CM is close due to the fact that the powerfulness to decision the DMK is with the radical of Tamil Nadu. I person participated successful elections crossed India, felt the pulse of the radical and tin accidental with condemnation that Tamil Nadu volition uproot the DMK this time,” said Shah.
The rally, however, turned retired to beryllium a BJP matter with nary NDA state successful attendance contempt speculation that they would attend.
Shah for his part, flagged the triumph of the Indian subject successful Operation Sindoor and said similar the remainder of the country, “Tamil Nadu participated successful the Tiranga Yatra to people Operation Sindoor and displayed exemplary patriotism.”
Stressing the muscular nationalist argumentation against terrorism, Shah said India was present moving towards self-reliance successful defence. “Operation Sindoor is inactive ongoing. Any enactment of aggression volition beryllium met with a stronger effect and the combat against coercion volition scope its conclusive extremity now,” said Shah, accusing the DMK of practising a authorities of caste and appeasement.
Flagging the renaming of Bhagwan Murugan Hill arsenic “Alexander Hill”, Shah said radical would not forgive the DMK for disrespecting Lord Murugan. Daring Stalin to marque aesculapian and engineering courses disposable successful Tamil connection for students, helium said 2024 had marked past for the BJP and 2026 would likewise herald winds of alteration for Tamil Nadu.
He said, “Modi secured a historical 3rd word astatine the Centre. For the archetypal time, the BJP formed a bulk authorities successful Odisha. In Haryana, the BJP won a 3rd consecutive term. In Maharashtra, we clocked the best-ever show and successful Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal was ousted and the BJP formed a authorities aft 27 years.”
“Change is connected the horizon. Soon NDA governments volition beryllium established successful some Tamil Nadu and West Bengal,” said Shah, accusing the DMK of Rs 450-crore nutrition scam and Rs 4,600-crore soil mining scam.