‘Kongu Nadu’ | T.N. cannot be bifurcated, say DMK front leaders

Leaders of the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance on Sunday mentioned nobody might bifurcate Tamil Nadu, whilst second-line office-bearers of the BJP remained divided on speculative studies that the Centre deliberate to transform the western districts right into a ‘Kongu Nadu Union Territory’.

“No one can divide Tamil Nadu or even dream of such a thing. Don’t worry,” DMK chief Kanimozhi instructed journalists, responding to a report in a Tamil each day, claiming that the Centre had such a plan.

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K.S. Alagiri mentioned such studies have been the BJP’s tactic to divert the individuals’s consideration from its failures on the financial and social fronts and its mismanagement of COVID-19.

Mr. Alagiri instructed The Puucho that the BJP had crafted a “planned, but wrong marketing gimmick” that might fizzle out after a number of days of debate within the public sphere.

Adding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was going through dissent from throughout the BJP and the RSS, he mentioned the event had a task in raking up “such separatist sentiments”. “Unlike Telangana, no one has asked for any separation within Tamil Nadu. The Telangana region was under-developed. The Kongu Nadu region is a well- developed one. Why would anyone split a well-developed region?” he requested.

Within the BJP, nevertheless, there’s division on the problem.

BJP State common secretary K. Nagarajan mentioned the proposal was within the preliminary levels and the individuals of the Kongu area needed its creation. “There are parties like the Kongu Nadu Desiya Makkal Katchi. Even [PMK leader] S. Ramadoss has spoken about the creation of regions such as Kongu Nadu,” he mentioned, including that the federal government should hearken to the individuals’s needs and fulfil them.

However, in Tiruppur, social gathering State treasurer S.R. Sekhar mentioned the BJP didn’t have any such proposals “for now”. He instructed journalists that the social gathering’s State high-level committee would convene to determine on the problem, which at current was “only a newspaper report”.

Members of the MDMK and the Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam staged demonstrations in Coimbatore, condemning the reported proposal, and demanded a clarification from the Union authorities.

‘Mischievous voices’

Amma Makka Munnetra Kazhagam common secretary T.T.V. Dhinakaran referred to as upon the Union and State governments to nip within the bud the “mischievous voices” in help of the bifurcation of Tamil Nadu.

In a collection of tweets, he mentioned the thought of dividing the State on caste traces would by no means be allowed, when there was no such demand from any part of the individuals. Any transfer based mostly on caste would be “greatly detrimental” to the Tamils, because the State had suffered closely from the re-organisation of States on linguistic traces. It would be “intelligent” to pursue the trail of growth, he mentioned.

(With inputs

from R. Akileish)