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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has said that if Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to power there will be no more elections in India as the Prime Minister will turn “electoral democracy into elected autocracy”.
in an interview with Hindustan TimesStalin said the paramount issue in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections was to prevent India from becoming a “totalitarian and unitary state”.
MK Stalin said that “PM Modi’s return to power is not even beneficial for BJP. The party will cease to exist, only Modi will remain.”
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When asked about BJP’s campaign in the South, Stalin said that the influence of the saffron party is decreasing in North India also.
“The so-called saffron surge in Tamil Nadu is a fiction,” Stalin said, adding that the people of South India will deal a fatal blow to the BJP this time too.
On the India Bloc’s PM face, the Tamil Nadu CM said the country will get “a capable Prime Minister after June 4”.
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Citing the example of the selection of Dr Manmohan Singh for the PM candidate, the DMK party leader said there were many eminent leaders in the Indian bloc with exceptional qualities to lead the country.
Speaking on Katchatheevu island, Stalin said that if BJP had been serious on the issue, it would have reclaimed the island by now. Stalin asked, “PM Modi has visited Sri Lanka several times. Has he ever raised the Katchatheevu issue with Sri Lanka?
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said, “The politics going on over Katchatheevu are just crocodile tears for the Modi government.”
Elections for 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu will be held in the first phase on April 19. In the 2019 elections, the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance won a landslide victory, winning 38 out of 39 seats. Stalin-led DMK won 23 Lok Sabha seats with 33.% vote share, Congress won 8 seats with 12.9% vote share and CPI won two seats in Tamil Nadu.
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Published: 07 April 2024, 06:43 am IST
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