Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held a roadshow in Tamil Nadu`s Chennai, as part of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration`s (BJP) marketing campaign to realize a foothold within the southern states. Notably, this was PM Modi`s second street present in Tamil Nadu in a month.
Tamil Nadu BJP chief, the singham chief the BJP entrusts for rising its vote share in Tamil Nadu, Ok Annamalai was additionally current with PM Modi in the course of the roadshow. Annamalai is the BJP candidate from Coimbatore.
The BJP has fielded former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan in opposition to DMK`s Tamilachi Thangapandian in South Chennai. Forward of the roadshow, Soundararajan, mentioned, “There’s a spark of happiness. We’re so lucky to have a Prime Minister like him. There may be plenty of enthusiasm amongst our staff. PM Modi`s go to will assist us, we’ll win,”she mentioned, reported ANI.
Voting for all 39 seats in Tamil Nadu shall be held within the first part of the final elections on April 19.
Within the 2019 basic elections, the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance, comprising the Congress, VCK, MDMK, CPI, CPI(M), IUML, MMK, KMDK, TVK, AIFB, registered a landslide victory, successful 38 of the 39 seats within the state.
In the meantime, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Ok Stalin on Tuesday charged PM Modi with visiting the state solely in the course of the ballot season and accused him of utilising the central companies to focus on the opposition-ruled states.
As per PTI report, Stalin mentioned that the scenario was related in a lot of the non-BJP-ruled states throughout the nation the place the central companies and even the Governors created bother to state governments. “That is Modi`s India,” Stalin mentioned addressing an election rally right here in assist of the DMK candidates and its allies.
Later in a sequence of posts on `X,` the Prime Minister mentioned the roadshow within the metropolis would stay part of his reminiscence perpetually and that Chennai had received him over.
(With ANI and PTI inputs)
