‘Stalin and DMK are slaves of Congress’: Palaniswami hits back after Stalin’s ‘Nitish Kumar’ analogy | India News
New Delhi: AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said on Sunday MK Stalinof DMK as a “slave”. CongressAn ally of the ruling party in the state.His comments came a day after Stalin said outgoing Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would “face the same fate” at the hands of the BJP.Both the AIADMK and Kumar’s JD(U) are allies of the BJP, which leads the government at the Centre.“For 20 days, the Congress and the DMK were engaged in a war of words over seat sharing and related issues. In the end, the Congress secured 28 seats for the assembly elections by scaring the DMK,” former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Palaniswami said at a rally in Perunthurai.“People have not forgotten that even when DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi was alive, the Congress intimidated the DMK, enslaved it and formed an alliance with it. This was achieved by raiding during seat-sharing talks,” he alleged, referring to the time when the Congress was in power at the Centre.The AIADMK, on the other hand, is an “independent party” that has chosen to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on its own, he added.Now, to oust the DMK from power, the AIADMK has formed an alliance that he describes as “strong, transparent and cordial” unlike the DMK-led alliance.AIADMK and BJP reunited in April last year. Stalin’s comments drawing comparisons between Palaniswami and Nitish Kumar came in reference to the Bihar chief minister’s recent move to file his Rajya Sabha nomination after leading the state for nearly two decades and months after leading the JD(U)-BJP alliance to a landslide victory in Bihar.The opposition described the development as a “follow-up” move by the BJP.(with PTI input)
