New Delhi: Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai on Sunday slammed DMK's 'signature campaign' against the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), saying that the party thinks 'Tamil Nadu politics is cinema.'
On Saturday, Youth Welfare and Sports Development Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin launched a campaign to obtain 50 lakh signatures in 50 days seeking to abolish the NEET examination.
Reacting to his campaign, Annamalai told ANI, "They still think Tamil Nadu politics is cinema. Now there are question marks on Stalin's degree itself. How did he get his degree? Now these are the people who talk about merit in education, who talk about social justice in education. The people of Tamil Nadu have accepted NEET. Getting signatures is not a big deal. I can also get 2 crore signatures favouring NEET. You (DMK) have nothing to show, no achievements to show .He (Udhayanidhi Stalin) is showing the egg as zero. Egg is oval. There is a difference between oval and zero. They don't know this."
On the arrest of senior party functionaries including Amar Prasad Reddy for creating a ruckus over raising a flag post outside the compound wall of his residence, the BJP chief said, "We are very clear that this evil force DMK has to be uprooted from Tamil soil… 13 BJP cadres are in jail in Tamil Nadu today. Six in the flag post issue and seven for social media posting. I welcome the arrest of the BJP cadres because that is the only way they become leaders very fast."
He added, "The whole arrest, the whole false cases, them going to jail and coming out it accelerates the process of leadership. So none of us are really worried. Tamil Nadu Police is worse than the British. Tamil Nadu Police is behaving worse than the East India Company because they have become stooges of DMK."
Six members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been arrested for creating ruckus over raising a flag post outside the compound wall of party state chief K Annamalai's residence last night in Panaiyur, Chennai.