Kamal Ghorui
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an election rally in Coimbatore on Saturday, where he said voters in Tamil Nadu would bring the NDA to power and remove the DMK government.“A new chapter is being written in the politics of Tamil Nadu. Tamil people are giving one clear message-NDA is in, DMK is out,” he said.Speaking about the failure of the constitution amendment bill on women’s reservation in parliament yesterday, PM Modi said he felt pain and anger over the outcome. “Today, amid my people, I want to express my pain and anger. I personally appealed to all the political parties to support the bill. I told them clearly that they may take the credit; I have no objection. I only wanted sisters from ordinary families to come to the parliament and assemblies in greater numbers,” he said.Attacking the opposition including DMK and Congress for the bill’s failure, he said, “DMK, Congress and their allies made it a target of hatred and petty politics,” he said.Further targeting the ruling DMK for wearing black clothes in protest, on Thursday, he said, “By wearing black clothes, DMK cannot cover up their wrong intentions. People know your black deeds and you cannot escape them any longer.”The Prime Minister accused the party of failing to support women. He said the DMK “harms women” in Tamil Nadu and “doesn’t stand with women in parliament either,” adding that the party would get a response for its “anti-women stand.”“Why does it trouble DMK and Congress to see women rise? These one-family parties want power to remain confined within their own families,” he said, adding, “Tamil Nadu has reached two new levels: one family’s wealth and the state’s debt; DMK’s top family is becoming richer while each Tamil Nadu person faces increasing debt.”
