The Tamil Nadu BJP Chief K. Annamalai took to Twitter to announce a rather unconventional offer. In a social media post on 6 November 2023, the BJP leader stated that the Tamil Nadu BJP is extending an invitation to 50 leaders from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) to embark on a tour of North and North Eastern India. The purpose of this unusual invitation, according to the statement released by the BJP chief, is to help DMK leaders clear their minds of derogatory stereotypes that have been propagated by the DMK for ages.
Thiru @mkstalin, @BJP4TamilNadu has offered to sponsor 50 train tickets for DMK leaders to tour North & North Eastern India to help clear their minds of derogatory stereotypes that your party has been propagating for ages. pic.twitter.com/FLpC3oIdoT
— K.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) November 6, 2023
The statement released by him states, “It amuses us time and again that the DMK, a party boasting of inclusivity and social justice over the last 70 years, does exactly the opposite with every given opportunity, and it has failed miserably to broaden its vision beyond Gummidipoondi to witness India’s Growth Story. It has been an agenda of the DMK to mislead the people of Tamil Nadu by coloring our
brothers & sisters from the North as illiterates and less competent when compared to Tamil Nadu. The never-ending hate of DMK has been countered effectively in this new age of Social Media.”
He also called out DMK leaders who have time and again negatively stereotyped and spewed hate towards north Indians saying, “While DMK claims to be champions of self-respect, their party leaders have time and again proved how miserable they are. Former Rajya Sabha MP & DMK leader Thiru RS Bharathy has reduced the pride of the Nagas to Dog eaters. In the past, DMK leaders such as Thiru Ponmudi Thiru Dayanidhi Maran and others have constantly been disparaging our North Indian brothers and sisters as pani puri sellers, toilet constructors and so on. Any rational person would acknowledge that the lives of our brothers and sisters in Northern India are not lesser than those of the people of Tamil Nadu. We can’t expect this rational thinking from people in the Arivalayam, though.”
He added, “Bharat as a Nation is woven by threads that hold every culture, every lifestyle, every religion, and every community with utmost solidity. It is quite unfortunate that the DMK, whose secessionist aspirations are still in the air, resorts to despicable means to parrot hatred & division among our countrymen. It is also hysterical that the DMK, a party in the I.N.D.I.A Alliance, recently called for the Eradication of Santana Dharma. It becomes the duty of any Indian citizen with self-respect to educate these uninformed DMK leaders who see places beyond Gummudipoondi with a myopic eye. Hence, on behalf of BJP Tamil Nadu, we propose to sponsor 50 train tickets to a selected delegation from the DMK who can travel to various parts of North & North Eastern India to get a real-time account of their growth trajectory.”
He ended his statement, “We are sure that this delegation of DMK will come back and report that the derogatory stereotypes they have propagated to date are a matter of fiction, just like the Dravidian ideology propagated by Robert Caldwell.”
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