Lok Sabha polls | Social justice is ‘allergy’ to BJP, defeat it comprehensively, says Stalin in Tiruppur

DMK president warns against BJP's threat to reservation system, democracy, and unity in diversity in upcoming 2024 Parliamentary election.

Cautioning the electorate that the Bharatiya Janata Party will first scrap the reservation system in education and jobs for the economically backward sections and the minorities once it comes back to power, DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday said the party (BJP) for which social justice was an “allergy” has to be defeated comprehensively in the 2024 Parliamentary election.

The reservation was an outcome of several struggles of the Dravidian Movement. The BJP, in the event of coming to power, will rewrite the Constitution, replacing Ambedkar’s principle of equality and creating divisions. The sectarian approach of the “fascist” BJP will pose a danger to the country’s democracy and derail the spirit of oneness. It was to safeguard the country’s unity in diversity that all democratic forces have joined hands for the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Mr. Stalin said at an election campaign meeting near Avinashi in Tiruppur district, to seek votes for the DMK contestant of the Nilgiris seat A. Raja, and the CPI candidate in Tiruppur Lok Sabha constituency K. Subbarayan

Mr. Stalin described Mr. Raja as a prolific orator and thinker who would stand up to the anti-people policies of the BJP in Parliament, and Mr. Subbarayan as the right person, as a friend to the working class, to voice the needs of MSME sector.

Citing the industrial slowdown and rise in unemployment over the last 10 years, Mr. Stalin said creating crisis was in the DNA of BJP.

Training his guns on the BJP for most part of his address, Mr. Stalin said in the event of Prime Minister Narendra Modi assuming power again, the country will be under his dictatorship and population of poor will increase phenomenally.

Industrial growth can happen only in a situation of peace, Mr. Stalin said, and making a reference to the attack on a woman in Tiruppur on Thursday for posing a query on GST to BJP partymen, the Chief Minister said its (BJP’s) approach will “turn Tiruppur into Manipur”.

The overwhelming public response to the single visit of former president of Indian National Congress Rahul Gandhi to Coimbatore on Friday eclipsed the overall impact of the repeated visits of Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi to the city, Mr. Stalin observed, adding that Mr. Rahul Gandhi’s view that the forthcoming election was a fight between forces representing social equality and social sectarianism was a reiteration of what he (Mr. Stalin) had been emphasising all along. “My brother” Rahul Gandhi has proved that Tamil Nadu can be influenced only through compassion.