New Delhi: AIADMK joint coordinator and Leader of Opposition in Tamilnadu Assembly Edappadi K Palaniswami has said Chief Minister M K Stalin has gone to New Delhi to ‘fall at the feet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to spare him and his family from the controversy around their recent family trip to Dubai under the pretext of an official visit’.
Wondering if it had anything to do with his recent trip to Dubai, Palaniswami mocked the DMK’s change in stance and referred to the party’s black balloon protest.
‘Then, the DMK members stooped to a low level in criticising the Prime Minister. People now say that Stalin undertook the Delhi visit with the hope that the Prime Minister, forgetting the past, will save him and his family,’ Palaniswami said in a statement here.
Palaniswami recalled the visit of Stalin’s father M Karunanidhi to New Delhi to meet then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and patch up with her 43 years ago.
Palaniswami argued that Modi would not get ‘carried away’ by Stalin’s ‘drama’, unlike Indira Gandhi.