‘BJP’s prominence in State will start from Kanniyakumari’

He introduces party’s candidates for urban local body polls

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s prominence in State politics will start from Kanniyakumari, said its State president K. Annamalai.

At a meeting organised here on Tuesday to introduce the party’s candidates contesting the urban local body polls in the district, he said that whenever Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi talked ill of the BJP, either the party wins handsomely as in Gujarat twice and Narendra Modi became Prime Minister. So close on the heels of Mr. Rahul making an attack on Mr. Modi, three BJP members were elected opposed in Kamudhi in Rananathapuram district and Aralvoimozhi and Eraniyal in Kanniyakumari district.

“The ‘thukkade thukkade gang,’ as Mr. Modi calls the Congress, could field only nine candidates out of 450 seats in my native Karur district. Mr. Rahul is being driven southwards from Amethi to Wayanad and he may even eye Kanniyakumari next, the reason why he has started talking high of Tamil Nadu,” he said.