Udhayanidhi asks Tamil Nadu Governor Ravi to resign and contest elections

Udhayanidhi Stalin challenges R.N. Ravi to resign, contest election & prove his ideology. He's ready to lose his ministerial post for students' right to education. He also challenges Edappadi K. Palaniswami to send a rep to protest in front of PM's residence. DMK & Dravidar Kazhagam leaders inaugurate & end fast against NEET. Udhayanidhi says people of TN won't forgive BJP & AIADMK if NEET isn't cancelled.

Youth Welfare and Sports Development Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Sunday said he was ready to listen to Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi, and would speak in favour of NEET, if Mr. Ravi contests an election against an ordinary cadre of the DMK and wins.

“Resign from your post. Select a constituency. Meet the people and explain your ideology. The people of Tamil Nadu will beat you with chappals,” he said, while participating in a fast demanding the scrapping of NEET by the youth wing, the students’ wing and the medical wing of the DMK.

Mr. Udhayanidhi, who is also the leader of the party’s youth wing, said the Governor had the temerity and the arrogance to say that he will never give clearance to the Bill against NEET. “Who are you, Mr. Governor? What authority do you have? Are you a people’s representative? You are a postman. You carry the messages of the Chief Minister to the Union government,” he said.

Recalling the advice he had received that he should not participate in the protest as it would create a legal crisis and could lead to his disqualification as a Minister, Mr. Udhayanidhi said he was ready to lose anything, including his ministerial post, to secure the students’ right to education.

“The DMK is not a party that is interested only in power. I am not participating in the protest as a Minister or a leader, but as an ordinary man and a brother of all the 21 lives lost to NEET,” he said. He alleged that those 21 students had not committed suicide, but were murdered by the BJP government at the Centre, and that the AIADMK also had a role in assisting the BJP in committing the murder.

On the demand that action be taken against Ammasiappan, the father of a student who had questioned the Governor over NEET, he said, “Let them take action. The people of Tamil Nadu will not spare them. What is wrong with questioning the Governor?”

If anything happened to Ammasiappan, the DMK will not remain a mute spectator, he said.