By Ahamed Ansar MS, TwoCircles.net,
Trichy, Tamil Nadu: The ‘Youth Lotus Conference’ of Bharatiya Janata Party ended in Tiruchirapalli of Tamil Nadu on Thursday amid controlled social groups protest against the public address of the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
All the usual price rise, rupee value, terror strike in Kashmir, youth employment, anti-Congress topics came second when the Gujarat chief minister took ‘Tamil’ soil pride in his lead paragraph by overtaking the Tamil ownership of two big regional parties, the DMK and the AIADMK.
Narendra Modi (TCN File photo)
Modi equalized Gujarat with Tamil Nadu while speaking about industrial growths and fishermen issue as Gujarat facing Pakistan and the latter continued dealings with Sri Lanka.
“The Centre is irresponsible in dealing fishermen issue with Sri Lanka,” he said.
“Tamils are talented and holding top positions in Microsoft and many organisations in overseas because of their hard work and loyalty,” added the PM candidate of the BJP.
Prior to Modi’s address, the state leaders of BJP have praised their leader with Tamil political legends which might increase the blood pressure of his Tamil Nadu counterpart J.Jayalalithaa.
“Our leader Narendra Modi is like, a Kamaraj (late Congress chief minister of the state), an MGR (founder of ruling AIADMK)” said Ms.Thamizhisai Soundararajan, one of BJP’s national secretary who belongs to Tamil Nadu.
The gratitude extended by state BJP president Pon.Radhakrishnan to a prominent Tamil daily ‘Dinamani,’ a publication from The New Indian Express Group, has left a big question against imbalance journalism by the paper.
“I thank Dinamani for its today’s cartoon in which the illustration says, over 1 lakh public would visit BJP’s Trichy meet even without offering cash and biriyani packets,” Mr. Radhakrishnan openly said from the dias while speaking at gathering indicating the Dravidian parties who offer those free things.
However, local activists laughed at BJP on their Facebook posts (and other social media) that the maximum seating capacity of the meeting venue ground in Trichy is actually 20,000 in numbers.
A newly launched Tamil news channel called Lotus News, BJP’s state mouthpiece, however, did not even hesitate to run ‘4.5 lakh people gathered to hear Narendra Modi’s speech’ on its scrolling.
Meanwhile, many social media posts by activists in the state had criticised Mr. Pachamuthu Parivendar, a media baron and Chancellor of SRM University, a famous private educational group in the country based in Chennai over his support for BJP.
The activists also allege that Mr. Pachamuthu gave his institution buses for BJP members and also directed some of his university students to attend the Trichy conference.
A month ago Mr. Pachamuth, who is also the founder of IJK party (Indiya Jananayaga Katchi) reportedly met Rajnath Singh at his residence in New Delhi after his institutions and media house were raided in Chennai by income tax officials.
The two-year old Chennai based satellite Tamil news channel called Puthiya Thalaimurai (New Generation), which itself self-crediting apolitical journalism, unlike AIADMK’s Jaya TV and DMK’s Kalaignar TV, is actually run by Mr. R.P. Sathyanarayanan, son of SRM Chancellor Mr. Pachamuthu.
Within two months after its launch in 2011, the TRP of Puthiya Thalaimurai TV beats Sun News of Kalanithi Maran, Managing Director of Sun Group and grand nephew of former chief minister M. Karunanidhi.