BJP will forge robust alliance for LS polls: Ram Madhav

CHENNAI: BJP general secretary Ram Madhav has claimed that his party will forge a robust alliance for the Lok Sabha polls to take on the Congress party that “thrives and survives on negativity, lies and wrong propaganda.”

Lashing out at DMK chief M. K. Stalin for criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Centre, he said, “I pity some leaders...khud naam Stalin (a reference to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin) hai... he calls others fascists...We have seen the face of fascism in the State under the great DMK. It is better to look at their own faces in mirror rather than try to throw mud at great leaders like PM Modi ...this kind of language used against top leaders like the prime minister does not behove (them) well.”

 Accusing Modi of being indifferent to Tamil Nadu’s needs following the devastation caused by cyclone Gaja, Mr. Stalin had called Modi a “sadist” and his government a “fascist regime.” The BJP leader said since the DMK had joined hands with the Congress, it was using the latter's language. “Company matters,” he told reporters here on Tuesday.

 To a question, he replied leaders of the mahagathbandhan like the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party skipped the Karunanidhi statue unveiling on Monday, apparently referring to the swearing-in ceremonies of the three Congress chief ministers. “We do not know if (any) other thing is cooking...no single party in country has the courage or stamina to take on Prime Minister Modi or the BJP,” he said termed the opposition’s unity efforts as “tamasha.” Such attempts were being made to “create negativity” about the PM in order to stitch together an broad-based alliance against the BJP, he said.