Chennai: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday slammed the BJP and the RSS and said Tamilnadu has to be run from Tamilnadu and not from Delhi.
Rahul assured that his party and DMK will never compromise on the ideologies that were against the interests of Tamils and Tamilnadu.
Addressing an election meeting in the city to canvass votes for the candidates of the DMK-Congress combine, he asserted that the Congress and the DMK will never compromise on the ideologies that were against the interests of Tamils and Tamilnadu.
In a scathing attack on the BJP, Rahul said, “but one party is out to destroy that inherent strengths of TN and this election is to defeat them”.
“In Congress we believe in mutual respect, love and affection when it comes to party functionaries and alliance party leaders. But in BJP one has to touch the feet or bend before Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah,” he said.
“It pains me to see CM of TN, which has a great culture and history, bowing down before Modi and Shah,” he alleged.
“Upright people will not bow down before others. The TN CM is forced to do so because he is corrupt. That is why the Congress is supporting the DMK and I am here to support the DMK-Congress alliance,” Rahul said.
Alleging that there was a full-scale assault on the ideology of Tamilnadu, he said this assault should not be underestimated.
“It is conceptualised by the RSS and Narendra Modi. They want a Tamilnadu which bows in front of them. They do not understand Tamilnadu,” he said, adding, “India cannot exist without Tamilnadu”.
He said the BJP and the RSS would be smashed in this election. He said this election is different from the earlier elections, which were fought between political parties. This is a Tamil election, with the AIADMK, BJP and RSS on the one side and the people of Tamilnadu on the other side.
He said that after polls, it will be a government that will not be controlled by Delhi and DMK president M K Stalin will become the Chief Minister after the polls.