Amit Shah visited Chennai on Saturday.
Chennai:
AIADMK’s alliance with the BJP will continue for the Tamil Nadu elections to be held early next year, the ruling party’s main coordinator and senior deputy minister O Panneerselvam announced on Saturday during a visit by Union Minister Amit Shah to Chennai.
“The Lok Sabha alliance will continue for the assembly elections. We have given 10 years of good governance. Our alliance will win the 2021 elections. Tamil Nadu will always support the prime minister. [Narendra] Modi, “said Chief Minister E Palaniswami.
Shah praised the Tamil Nadu government for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the state was the best-governed in the country this year according to the center’s ranking.
“India under Prime Minister Modi has contained Covid while other nations fight. I applaud E Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam for containing Covid. Tamil Nadu’s recovery rate is high. Covid statistics shared by Tamil Nadu are good. No other state it has taken care of pregnant women like Tamil Nadu, “he said.
“Is the DMK ready to list what they did for Tamil Nadu during their 10 years at the center? People are teaching family policy a lesson, they will do it here too. People contaminated with 2G don’t have a locus standi to talk about politics, “added Shah.
After a setback in the Lok Sabha elections, the AIADMK hopes to surpass rival DMK once again in the state where it has been in power for more than nine years.
The AIADMK defeated the DMK in the 2011 assembly elections when J Jayalalithaa led the party to a resounding victory. He won again in 2016 before the DMK bounced back with a strong performance in last year’s Lok Sabha elections.
An alliance led by the DMK, which also includes Congress, won 38 of the 39 parliament seats in Tamil Nadu, in addition to Puducherry’s only seat, leaving just one for the AIADMK-BJP alliance, in the first major election in the state. made after the deaths of Ms Jayalalithaa and DMK Patriarch M Karunanidhi in 2016 and 2018 respectively.
In an earlier unprecedented move, Amit Shah was greeted by Palaniswami, Panneerselvam, senior cabinet members, and BJP head of state L Murugan, among others, upon arrival from Delhi, before heading to his hotel.
Along the way, he got out of his vehicle and walked down the busy GST Road outside the airport to greet supporters. Thanking his fans, he said it was “great” to be in Tamil Nadu.
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