EPS says he is not a worm for the BJP to swallow
AIADMK
general secretary
Edappadi K Palaniswami
said on Monday that he was not a worm to be swallowed by
BJP
.
Responding to remarks by chief minister M K Stalin that BJP would swallow AIA
DMK
, EPS said it was DMK which was swallowing its allies.
"Stalin says BJP will swallow Palaniswami. Is Palaniswami a worm to be swallowed by a fish? You are the one swallowing many of your allies.
Congress has diminished, Communists have disappeared, and VCK is sticking around with DMK," he said during his campaign in Thanjavur.
EPS also rebutted the criticism that AIADMK will be divided by BJP. "Stalin is warning us that AIADMK will break and that I should be careful. I would like to tell him that AIADMK will not break," EPS said.
EPS alleged that when he was the chief minister, DMK was desperate to bring him down and posed several troubles, especially the no confidence motion in the assembly in 2017. "When we proved our majority and defeated the motion, he walked away with torn shirt. When we win the elections next year, (his) dhoti too will also disappear," EPS said.
EPS reaffirmed that his party will form a govt with an absolute majority in the upcoming assembly elections.
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"Stalin claims that the DMK alliance will win 200 seats. Instead, the AIADMK alliance will win in 210 seats. AIADMK will form the govt with an absolute majority," he said.
He also hit out at Stalin for not preventing the Karnataka govt from going ahead with the Mekedatu dam project. "Congress is ruling in Karnataka. DMK and Congress are part of the INDIA bloc. Why can't you (Stalin) talk to Congress and resolve the Mekedatu dam row?" he asked.
He said that Karnataka has sought permission from the Centre to construct the dam, EPS alleged that neither the CM nor water resources minister have spoken anything about it.
"If Mekedatu dam was built , Cauvery delta region in Tamil Nadu would become a desert," he said.
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