DMK Worried About Being Dubbed Anti-Women After Raja's Speech

As the campaign for Tamil Nadu Assembly elections enters the home stretch, the DMK, which is leading in most opinion polls, is suddenly faced with an unexpected challenge. The party is being painted anti-women thanks to former Union minister A. Raja라이브 바카라 derogatory comments on Chief Minister Palaniswami라이브 바카라 birth and his mother.

The AIADMK and its allies have leveraged Raja라이브 바카라 words to whip up fear in the minds of women voters asking them: “If this is how they treat a chief minister라이브 바카라 mother imagine the fate of ordinary women if the DMK comes to power.” Right from the chief minister other campaigners of the AIADMK front are now playing that line repeatedly.

바카라 웹사이트“Why should they harp on an issue that is dead after Raja라이브 바카라 apology? It only shows that they are staring at defeat and have no other issue to put the DMK on the defensive. They even got the Prime Minister to plug the same line forgetting how a woman IAS officer was scarred for life by acid attack because she refused to toe Jayalalithaa라이브 바카라 line during her first term,” pointed out DMK advocate Kannadasan. A. Raja, too in his reply to the EC notice, claimed that the controversy has been put to rest with his apology.

But the fact that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an issue of not just A. Raja but also바카라 웹사이트 DMK platform speaker Dindigul Leoni라이브 바카라 comments about Tamil women losing their figure after drinking milk from imported Jersey cows proved that the NDA plans to milk this issue to the maximum. Modi even referred to Udhayanidhi라이브 바카라 crass remarks about Palaniswami falling at Sasikala라이브 바카라 feet after being elected Chief Minister in바카라 웹사이트February 2017. “He fell at Sasikala라이브 바카라 feet and lay there like a dead body. Before that he wriggled through tables and chairs to touch her feet. Given a chance he would have gone through her legs as well,” Udhayanidhi had said in his바카라 웹사이트January 2021바카라 웹사이트speech amidst laughter among the audience.

Udhayanidhi apologised only after he was slapped with a legal notice by Sasikala라이브 바카라 nephew and AMMK leader TTV Dhinakaran, who had accused the DMK scion of resorting to vulgar language just like his grandfather Karunanidhi. DMK campaign managers are worried about the impact of Raja라이브 바카라 speech and are actually hoping that the Election Commission would ban the Lok Sabha MP from campaigning. “We have a solid lead as the latest election survey by Junior Vikatan (a popular Tamil biweekly) has projected. We do not want to lose that advantage by some intemperate remarks which can be twisted to create misgivings in the minds of women voters,” admitted a DMK MLA.

Even Raja라이브 바카라 apology, which came with the rider that he is sorry if the CM has been hurt personally, was extracted by party president M.K. Stalin only after senior leaders felt that it could hurt the party라이브 바카라 electoral prospects. Some of them even compared it with Mani Shankar Aiyar라이브 바카라 infamous offer to Modi to set up a tea stall at the AICC session ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and how Modi had converted that jibe to his advantage.

BJP candidate from Thousand Lights actress Khushbu has with timely recall pointed out how DMK cadres had thrown chappals and pulled her pallu when she had gone to Tiruchy to attend a wedding. Apparently they were agitated about Khushbu라이브 바카라 comments (she was with the DMK then) that Stalin was yet to prove his leadership qualities to succeed Karunanidhi. “When I had called Stalin for help he said he was having lunch. How can such a person protect the women of Tamil Nadu?” she asked in an election meeting on바카라 웹사이트Tuesday.

The coming days will see if the AIADMK can actually come up with ads in the mass media to paint the DMK as anti-woman when the party has gone out of its way to woo women voters. “Our cadres are playing Raja라이브 바카라 speech on their mobile phones and showing them to women voters in every street. The shocking reaction from the womenfolk shows that our approach is working,” said a member of the AIADMK라이브 바카라 IT wing.

With just a week to go election-day the AIADMK hopes to whip up some kind of hysteria over the issue. The DMK wants to focus the attention of voters only on how close the DMK is to the winning post and not to be diverted by one speech.