Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections | We don’t treat people based on their faith, says PM Modi

BJP chief and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday insisted that his authorities doesn’t differentiate between people on the premise of their religion and faith.

“We are for Indians and not for any particular caste or religion. We rescued nurses abducted in Iraq. We rescued Rev. Fr. Alexis Premkumar from his abductors in Afghanistan and Rev. Fr. Tom from his abductors in Yemen. When I personally called Fr. Alexis’s sister to inform her that he was safe even after being a hostage for 18 months, she could not believe it. We don’t treat people based on their faith or religion,” he stated at an election assembly in Kanniyakumar, a district with appreciable Christian inhabitants.

Being Good Friday, he recalled the sacrifices and companies of Jesus Christ for the poor.

UPA’s dynasty rule

Targeting the Opposition, he claimed that whereas the NDA is eager on holistic infrastructure and industrial growth of the nation, the nepotism ridden UPA is for dynasty rule for the advantage of their youngsters and their grandchildren.

The prime goal of the NDA authorities was to create a affluent farming sector, a effervescent industrial sector, a well-developed coastal sector and fishing trade by designing acceptable insurance policies. “We will ensure better connectivity between the fishing harbours and the hinterland to enable fishermen to reach their markets for getting better price,” he stated.

Assailing the DMK, he stated senior leaders of the occasion, who had labored shoulder-to-shoulder with late M. Karunanidhi, needed to work with the ‘crown prince’ [Udhayanidhi Stalin] because the occasion was eager on dynasty rule. The Congress, he stated, was undemocratic because it had dismissed elected governments up to now, and the occasion didn’t perceive native sentiments.

Earlier, in Madurai, the place he invoked references to the Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple, Mr. Modi accused the DMK and the Congress of spreading lies. He insisted that building of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Madurai could be accomplished as per correct process.

A state-of-the-art infectious illnesses block could be established on the AIIMS. “The AIIMS will provide quality healthcare and treatment for the people of this region,” he added.

[Recently, DMK youth wing leader Udhayanidhi Stalin had campaigned holding a brick to stress that there was no progress in the construction of the AIIMS, beyond the initial brick laying ceremony.]

Mr. Modi stated that the DMK and the Congress should management their lies as a result of the people usually are not silly. “The DMK and the Congress project themselves as the only protectors of Tamil culture. However, the facts prove the opposite,” he stated.

In 2011, the UPA hovernment supported a ban on jallikattu. The AIADMK authorities, an ally of the BJP, promulgated an ordinance to allow the conduct of jallikattu, he famous.

Charging that the DMK didn’t take any steps for the welfare of the Devendra Kulavelalar group, Mr. Modi insisted that the AIADMK and the BJP had labored to make sure the dignity of the group. He claimed that the regulation and order scenario within the State could be disturbed if the DMK-led alliance involves energy. “The DMK is trying to make peace-loving Madurai a ‘mafia den’ because of an internal complication in its first family,” he alleged.

The NDA focuses on three predominant areas for the event of South Tamil Nadu: infrastructure, irrigation and investments, stated the PM.

Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami stated an alliance with the BJP authorities would assist deliver good initiatives to Tamil Nadu.

Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam and senior leaders of alliance events participated.