Annamalai’s is a paava yathirai: CM Stalin

IT’S a paava yathirai (a procession to wash off sin),” Chief Minister MK Stalin said referring to BJP leader K Annamalai’s ‘padayatra’ on Saturday.Stalin was addressing DMK’s newly-appointed youth wing functionaries at the party headquarters, Anna Arivalayam. “This is the BJP’s attempt to ‘wash away’ the sins of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the ongoing Manipur riots. Why hasn’t the Union government organised a peace rally in the riot-hit state? Why hasn’t Union Home Minister Amit Shah gone there and taken out a procession? The BJP has not taken sincere and serious efforts to restore normalcy in Manipur for over two months and is now conducting a ‘yatra’ here. This is aimed at creating communal tension in our state,” Stalin said.