TUTICORIN: Bharatiya Janata Party state president
L Murugan on Friday expressed confidence that the party MLAs will sit in the
Tamil Nadu assembly in double digits after the coming .
“That is our target,” he told reporters at the Tuticorin airport on Friday. He was on his way to Kanyakumari to review arrangements for home minister Amit Shah’s campaign on Sunday.
Stating that the party had begun electioneering across the state, Murugan said alliance talks with the AIADMK were smooth. He added that the party had sought a sizeable number of seats not only in the southern region but across Tamil Nadu and was hopeful that it would get them.
According to him, at least one person in every house has been benefited by one scheme or other by the Union government.
He said the Centre’s welfare schemes combined with those executed by the state government in the last 10 years would come in favour of the alliance. He said that the people were waiting to teach the DMK a lesson as that party just talked about social justice but would not practise it. “The DMK doesn’t respect women. Instead they are humiliating women, including a party MLA,” he said.
He mentioned former AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala’s decision to quit politics and called her a respectable person. “She said the enemy, the DMK, should not come to power. We welcome it,” he said and added that their only goal was to ensure that the common enemy would not come to power.
He said the third front and the fourth front had always ended in failure, thereby ruling out their prospects of shining in the coming polls.
Asked about his petition to the Election Commission to ban the campaigns of Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi, he said even after the model code of conduct (MCC) came into effect, the latter had campaigned at education institutions (a college in Tirunelveli on Sunday and a school in Kanyakumari district on Monday) and spoke ill of the Union government. “It is a violation of the MCC. So I lodged the complaint,” he said.