With the race for Lok Sabha elections 2024 heating up by the day, DMK and BJP candidates pitted against each other from South Chennai were seen exchanging courtesies and wishing each other good luck for the polls.
Former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, who has been fielded by the saffron party from South Chennai and DMK’s Tamizhachi Thangapandian bumped into each other when they arrived to file their nomination forms on Monday.
Both of them exchanged greetings and hugged each other even amidst the bitter political tussle between DMK and BJP in the state.
Tamilisai Soundararajan made the cut for the BJP’s third list of candidates released last Thursday for the Lok Sabha polls scheduled to begin from April 19, 2024.
For a positive change, the pictures of Tamilisai and Tamizhachi have come much to the delight of local voters and supporters of respective parties as a soothing agent amid an ugly rivalry getting bigger and bigger in the state.
Just last Saturday, Tamil Nadu Minister and DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin hit out at the BJP-led Centre over fund allocation and alleged that it paid only 28 paise to the state for every rupee the state paid as tax, while the BJP-ruled states get more money.
Udhayanidhi’s statement came the same day as his father and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin continued his tirade against the centre, saying, “If the BJP comes back to power in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, there will be “no more federalism” and things will go to an extent where “even states will not exist.”
Apart from the DMK high command, party leaders have also been launching continuous attacks on the BJP as well.
Recently, Tamil Nadu Minister Anitha Radhakrishnan said the Prime Minister inaugurated projects to honour stalwarts like Sardar Vallabhai Patel and Kamarajar only to garner meagre votes, a statement that the BJP termed as “a nauseating act”.
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