Chennai. DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran on Wednesday said Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai is a joker and he will not take back his words about Annamalai. Maran said that once he was against NEET, now Annamalai supports it. He once said that he did not know Hindi and now he speaks Hindi fluently. His ‘Joker’ comment on national television became a major controversy and even Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned it in his public rally. After which Dayanidhi Maran said that he behaved like a chameleon. Dayanidhi Maran said, ‘I stand by my words, he is a joker. We need people like him. He is a good entertainer. Please Annamalai, continue.
On this, PM Modi said that “DMK is immersed in the arrogance of power. When a senior DMK leader was asked about our young leader Annamalai, he was so blinded by ego that he asked, ‘Who is Annamalai’ and then used a derogatory word. The word used by the DMK leader actually describes the character of DMK.
The roots of this controversy lie in an interview with ‘India Today’, where when Dayanidhi was asked to comment about Annamalai, he said ‘Who is she?’ The video of this incident went viral in which Maran can be seen signaling his supporters to remain calm. Which shows that he is having trouble hearing the questions. Then he said ‘Oh! You’re talking about the Joker?’ When Maran understood who Annamalai was, he replied. He was asked whether he was undermining the BJP’s Coimbatore candidate. On this he asked whether the journalists were not overestimating Annamalai.
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PM Modi said that ‘such arrogance will be answered by the people of Tamil Nadu when they vote against DMK.’ After this, Dayanidhi Maran reacted to the charge of ‘arrogance’ and recalled a recent incident in Coimbatore. When the cars of journalists tried to overtake Annamalai’s car. ‘What did Annamalai do? How arrogant can a person be? He troubled them. Maran said, have you seen any person from DMK doing this? We are foot soldiers… Our leaders have given us instructions that you may be an MP, you may be a councilor but you are expected to serve the people… We work with the people…’ DMK MP Maran Said that ‘Maybe PM Modi is angry with DMK because the people of Tamil Nadu are with DMK.’
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 10, 2024, 20:22 IST