Stalin targets PM over CAG, says BJP must be trounced in LS polls

Chennai: DMK President and Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet colleagues for not responding to the “irregularities” flagged by the CAG report and said the BJP must be decimated in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

He urged the people to unite to put an end to the saffron party’s “communal, divisive, authoritarian, and corporate-driven politics.” Stalin questioned PM Modi on CAG report in his second episode of “Speaking for India” podcast today.

“I ask Modi, who accuses INDIA of being an alliance of corrupt people; the CAG report exposes the corruption in your rule. Have you read what the report says? Did you discuss this in the special session? Did you even answer? The podcast was titled, “The CAG report flagging Rs 7.5 lakh crore irregularities and Prime Minister’s silence.”

The DMK chief alleged the BJP government is made of “five Cs, which are communalism, corruption, corporate capitalism, cheating and character assassination.”

Though the BJP has managed to hide it all through propaganda and advertisements, the INDIA coalition’s leaders are now unmasking BJP. “We are not saying this for politics. The CAG report proves that we have been sharing factual insights based on real data.”

Citing the CAG report, from the Ayodhya development project to the Ayushman Bharat scheme, Stalin alleged irregularities to the tune of Rs 7.5 lakh crore.

“So far neither the Prime Minister nor the union ministers concerned have responded to this. They cannot respond either. That’s the reason why Modi takes on different kinds of politics to divert people.”

The people of the country have realised that Modi is working “against” the poor, the downtrodden, the backward classes, the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes, he alleged. Hence, in the 2024 elections, the BJP must be defeated in total and people must unite to put an end to the Saffron party’s “communal, divisive, authoritarian, and corporate-driven politics.”

Elaborating on CAG report, Stalin said as regards the Ayodhya project, it has shown that the BJP is a “corrupt” party. They name all projects using words that cannot even be pronounced by the common people and it is done so that no one would be able to figure out what is really going on.

In the Swadesh Darshan project, the CAG has found several irregularities worth millions, revealing violations in the contracts being offered. The report shows that the BJP will not be able to fulfil its promises and an example is the UDAN scheme started with a “huge bang.”

Out of the 774 routes that were planned, only 7 per cent of the routes are operational and 93 per cent routes are inactive. In 2021-22, the railways spent Rs 107 on generating a revenue of Rs 100, making the railways finances a matter of concern, according to the CAG report.

“As we often say, the BJP builds a false image through advertising. Do you know what they have done for those ads? The funds allocated from 2017 to 2021 in various pension schemes of the Union government have been utilised for advertisements of the Union government and it has been exposed that irregularities have been committed.” (PTI)