Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Tamil Nadu BJP president Okay Annamalai throughout the closing ceremony of the BJP’s ‘En Mann Ek Makkal’ padyatra, close to Palladam in Tirupur on February 27, 2024. (PTI)
Chatting with CNN-News18, the previous IPS officer mentioned, “I’ve to go the place the combat is. It’s a clear message that we’re sending. Coimbatore will elect BJP with document margin.”
Tamil Nadu BJP chief Okay Annamalai, who hails from Karur, however is combating the upcoming Lok Sabha polls from Coimbatore, mentioned he was contesting from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) bastion as he wished to be the place the true combat was.
Chatting with CNN-News18, the previous IPS officer mentioned, “I’ve to go the place the combat is. It’s a clear message that we’re sending. Coimbatore will elect BJP with document margin.”
He added that his get together was concerned in clear politics and the folks of the constituency had religion in him.
“I’m positive that BJP’s exceptional efficiency in Coimbatore will set the tone for politics within the state,” he mentioned.
On allegations of campaigning past stipulated hours, the chief mentioned, “I used to be solely assembly folks. Denying them could be conceitedness.”
Coimbatore is an industrial hub located within the foothills of the Western Ghats and is a singular constituency in Tamil Nadu the place ‘nationwide and state politics intersect. With a mixture of enterprising Gounders and Naickers, Dalits, Thevars, and a large variety of Muslims, Coimbatore has been AIADMK’s bastion for a really very long time. The party-led alliance gained all 10 seats within the 2021 elections that noticed the DMK returning to energy after a decade.
Okay Annamalai’s response to Dayanidhi Maran’s joker comment
Responding to former union minister Dayanidhi Maran’s ‘joker’ comment in opposition to him, Annamalai mentioned, “The world’s biggest chief (PM Modi) has replied to him. It might not be good for me to say something after that.”
DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Minister Dayanidhi Maran had not too long ago dismissed Annamalai as a “joker” and a “lame duck” who was being “overestimating” for his function within the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024.
Hitting again at Maran, PM Modi mentioned, “DMK is filled with conceitedness of energy. Certainly one of their leaders, when requested about Annamalai, with conceitedness requested: Who’s that? He used insulting phrases. This conceitedness is in opposition to the tradition of Tamil Nadu. This conceitedness won’t ever be favored by the folks.
He mentioned Tamil Nadu had a particular place in PM Modi’s coronary heart. He mentioned, “The PM’s appreaciation for me denotes his appreciation for my state.”
