BJP should strive to win many seats in Lok Sabha elections: Annamalai

The party will prepare grassroots-level workers to achieve it, says the TN BJP chief

The Bharathiya Janata Party (BJP) state president K Annamalai has said that the party would prepare the grassroots level workers to face the general elections to the Lok Sabha in 2024 here on Tuesday.

Speaking at the orientation meeting of the newly appointed office-bearers organised in Madurai in which leaders from national and State-level including H Raja, Kesava Vinayagam, C.P. Radhakrishnan, Nainar Nagendran, Sudakar Reddy and among others were present, he said that the party should strive hard to win as many seats possible in the Lok Sabha elections.Speaking at the orientation meeting of the newly appointed office-bearers organised in Madurai on Tuesday, where national and State-level leaders, including H. Raja, Kesava Vinayagam, C.P. Radhakrishnan, Nainar Nagendran, Sudakar Reddy and others were present, he said that the party should strive hard to win as many seats possible in the Lok Sabha elections. The State president said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had completed eight successful years in office. “We have to celebrate this and take the message to the nook and corners of Tamil Nadu during this month,” Mr. Annamalai said and added that the anti-BJP forces should be given a fitting reply in every issue. Criticising the DMK for its ‘double’ standards, the speakers said that be it in NEET or the property tax hike issue or others, the BJP should expose the DMK’s failures and explain to the public the way they had been duped. Later, briefing reporters, State general secretary R. Srinivasan said that the Tamil Nadu BJP unit would expose the DMK’s failures in all fronts. For instance, the DMK had tabled a Bill in the Assembly which empowers the State government to appoint vice-chancellors and thus eliminate the Governor from fulfilling the obligation. When in 1994, the late leader Jayalalithaa was the Chief Minister, she passed a similar Bill in the Assembly snatching the powers from the then Governor. The DMK then, which was in the Opposition, condemned the Bill and the party even criticised the act as nothing but “foolish”, Prof Srinivasan said and added that the people would be told about the ‘double’ standards of the DMK. Similarly, he said that on petrol and diesel price hike, the Centre cannot be blamed as it was universally known that the prices were fixed depending on the crude price on the international markets.