Chennai:

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has thrown down an inventory of dares to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, difficult him to ensure, amongst different issues, an inquiry into the electoral bonds row, restoration of areas “encroached by China”, and a caste census, if his Bharatiya Janata Occasion wins the election.

The Prime Minister has additionally been challenged to roll again notified amendments to the citizenship regulation and guarantee rapid distribution of catastrophe reduction funds, a burning matter that final week noticed the state authorities take the centre to the Supreme Court docket for a Rs 2,000 crore interim reduction package deal.

Mr Stalin’s twist on the ‘Modi ki assure’ tag – which the BJP makes use of regularly in election campaigns, together with within the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha ballot – got here in a prolonged put up in Tamil on X, and because the PM attacked the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in his eighth go to to the state this yr.

The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister additionally took a swipe on the Prime Minister’s many journeys to the southern state – which has historically rejected the BJP’s model of politics – evaluating it to migratory birds.

பருவகாலத்தில் பறவைகள் சரணாலயத்துக்கு வருவது போல், தேர்தல் காலங்களில் தமிழ்நாட்டில் வட்டமடிக்கும் பிரதமர் மோடி அவர்களே…

குஜராத் மாடல் – சவுக்கிதார் வேடங்கள் போலி என அம்பலமானதால், கேரண்டி கார்டுடன் #Elections2024-க்கு வந்திருக்கும் பிரதமர் மோடி அவர்களே…

இதோ இந்த கேரண்டிகளைத்…

— M.Okay.Stalin (@mkstalin) April 10, 2024

“Identical to birds come to a sanctuary in the course of the season, Prime Minister hovers over Tamil Nadu throughout election season. Prime Minister, who has include assure card… will you give these ensures?”

“In any other case, your ‘guarantee’ is as soon as once more uncovered as a ‘Made in BJP’ washer that smears corruption tainted with saffron!” the DMK boss thundered.

The checklist of ensures demanded included reservation for Scheduled Castes and Tribes, and Different Backward Lessons) and assurances of employment for 2 crore younger women and men yearly.

Mr Stalin additionally demanded the Prime Minister vow to exempt Tamil Nadu from the NEET – the Nationwide Eligibility Entrance Check, for admission to pan-India medical programs. Tamil Nadu is a fierce critic of the examination; in February final yr it moved the Supreme Court docket claiming the single-window frequent check violates federal ideas because it takes away states’ decision-making potential relating to schooling.

The Chief Minister additionally needed Mr Modi to scale back petrol, diesel, and LPG (cooking gasoline cylinder) costs, implement the Swaminathan Fee’s suggestions on minimal assist value, or MSP, for farmers, and cancel the army’s Agnipath scheme.

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The lengthy checklist of ‘assure’ calls for mirrored guarantees made by the DMK in its manifesto for this election. Launched final month, the doc says the Tamil occasion will repeal the Citizenship Modification Act and, general, evaluate the BJP’s “anti-people legal guidelines”.

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“The DMK continues to do what we are saying… that is what our leaders taught us. We went everywhere in the state and listened to the folks. This isn’t a DMK manifesto… it’s the folks’s manifesto,” Mr Stalin stated.

Among the many guarantees made had been reducing petrol and diesel costs to Rs 75 and Rs 65 per litre, scrapping of the Uniform Civil Code, and 33 per cent reservation for ladies in Parliament and Assemblies.

PM Modi In Tamil Nadu

Earlier immediately the Prime Minister spoke at rallies in Mettupalayam and Vellore, at which he attacked the DMK and the Congress-led INDIA opposition bloc, of which it’s a member.

The speeches included jabs at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and the Chief Minister’s son, Udhayanidhi Stalin, who was on the coronary heart of the ‘Sanatana Dharma‘ controversy.

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It additionally included a reference to the late former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa; her All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam was an ally until a dramatic break-up final yr.

Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha Election

Tamil Nadu votes within the first section of the seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The outcomes might be declared on June 4. Within the 2019 election the DMK-Congress alliance swept the state, successful 38 of its 39 seats. The DMK received 24, the Congress 10, and the AIADMK one. The BJP acquired zero seats.

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