He shut down speculation over whether the BJP and DMK would come to terms ahead of the general election.
There is no possibility of an alliance with a BJP led by Narendra Modi, DMK president MK Stalin has said. His remarks came a day after Modi said he is open to alliances with 'old friends'. Stalin also said it was funny and weird that Modi was comparing himself to Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
"The DMK will never ally with a BJP led by Narendra Modi, who as Prime Minister for the past four-and-a-half years has been of an alarming mindset where he been averse to words and phrases like 'secularism', 'social justice', 'equality', 'federalism'," said Stalin in a statement on Friday.
"It is not merely weird or a joke but his usual self-campaigning that he chose to refer to himself in the same breath as former Prime Minister Vajpayee, who was praised by our leader Kalaignar (M Karunanidhi) as 'right man in the wrong party'," he added.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not Vajpayee, nor is the NDA he leads the healthy alliance that Vajpayee created. Prime Minister Modi is also not one who occupies his position to protect the pluralistic nature of India," Stalin said in his statement.
"The people of Tamil Nadu will never forget that the rights of their states have suffered no greater threat under any other Prime Minister as they have under the rule of Narendra Modi," he added.
Stalin's vitriolic attack came a day after Modi told BJP workers from Tamil Nadu that the BJP is open to working with allies from Tamil Nadu.
The atheistic DMK and the religiously right BJP are ideologically incompatible now apart, as they were when they were indeed allies in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) between 1999 and 2003. However, the DMK has repeatedly portrayed its decision to support the NDA government to the fact that it was led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. It also points out that it quit the alliance in 2003, when communal issues started bubbling up following the 2002 Gujarat riots.
More pragmatically however, Stalin is aware that the BJP is insignificant at best in Tamil Nadu and that there are more votes even now in allying with the Congress. Stalin had caused a significant bit of discomfort among leaders from across the country who are trying to form a united anti-BJP front when he declared support for Congress chief Rahul Gandhi as the candidate for the PM post in the coming 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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