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DMK will continue to oppose CAA: Udhayanidhi

TRICHY: DMK youth wing secretary Udhayanidhi Stalin raked up the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) issue during his ‘Vidiyalai Nokki’ campaign in Trichy on Tuesday and promised to back the minorities in opposing the act. “The CAA affected the Muslims a lot. The DMK was the first party in the state to oppose the act. You (Muslims) should teach a lesson to the fascist BJP and its submissive AIADMK government. The DMK will continue to oppose CAA through legal battle to get justice,” Udhayanidhi said, while interacting with the members of the Muslim community in Alwar Thoppu. He was in Trichy for the second consecutive day as a part of the campaign. Udhayanidhi also reminded the community about the all-party protest organised by DMK president M K Stalin in Delhi and the rally organised against the act in Chennai. Like his previous campaigns, Udhayanidhi preferred not to criticise former chief minister J Jayalalithaa. “Jayalalithaa Amma challenged Modi but K T Rajenthira Balaji in the same Jayalithaa cabinet (after her death) says ‘Modi is our daddy’,” he said. His campaigns touched upon the farmers’ protest in Delhi against the farm laws. Udhayanidhi said that even the allies of the BJP opposed the laws citing the ‘negative impact’ of them on farmers. “The chief minister is supporting the farm laws because they were brought by PM Narendra Modi,” he said adding that the BJP had the list of corruptions and irregularities committed by the AIADMK leaders. That’s why the government is submissive to the BJP.

The Times of India

2020-12-30

Trichy