Team News Riveting
Chennai, April 1
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday lashed out at the DMK for the vulgar remarks made by its senior leader A Raja against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami’s mother.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission on Thursday banned DMK leader A Raja from campaigning for 48 hours after finding him guilty of violating the model code of conduct by making derogatory remarks against Palaniswami’s mother.
“It showed the party had no regard for women,” Shah said while addressing a rally here. The “mothers and sisters” of the state should teach a ‘lesson’ to the DMK in the April 6 Assembly polls, he said, adding that the DMK is aiming to romp home in the hustings by ‘hook or crook.’
Referring to Raja’s alleged offensive remarks targeted at Palaniswami, leader of the BJP’s ally AIADMK, Shah also slammed the Congress and DMK for corruption and dynasty politics.
“I saw the statement by DMK leader A Raja. The kind of statement he made against a deceased woman. I think they (DMK) have no regard for women and want to win this election by hook or crook,” he said.
“In the past, DMK made such bad remarks against (the late Chief Minister) Jayalalithaa ji. I appeal to the mothers and sisters of Tamil Nadu– teach a lesson to the anti-women DMK in the polls,” the BJP leader said.
The electoral battle was between the NDA which was walking the path of development and the UPA which was into corruption and dynasty politics, he said.
In another development, the Election Commission in its order reprimanded Raja for violation of the model code of conduct, delisted his name from the list of star campaigners of the DMK and debarred him from campaigning for 48 hours “with immediate effect.”
Assembly polls will be held in Tamil Nadu on April 6 in a single phase for which campaigning would end in the evening of April 4.
