Tamil Nadu Assembly polls | BJP and AIADMK not on same page on Enayam Fishing Port project: Stalin

Claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami were not on the same page on the establishment of the Fishing Port (at Enayam) in Kanniyakumari district and that

Claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami were not on the same page on the establishment of the Fishing Port (at Enayam) in Kanniyakumari district and that they were indulging in acts of deception, DMK president M.K. Stalin said on Saturday that a government under his leadership will never permit the project in the State. Campaigning in Vedaranyam, Mr. Stalin said that while the Prime Minister had referred to the project as economic panacea for fishermen at Kanniyakumari on Friday, the AIADMK government was against it, despite the Centre pushing for its implementation through an official communication. The DMK has taken cognizance of the opposition of Christian community leaders to the project, Mr. Stalin said. The attacks on Indian fishermen (by the Sri Lankan Navy) had increased over the last seven years with BJP at the helm at the Centre. The Prime Minister was not bothered about the deaths of fishermen and confiscation of boats. Textiles Minister O.S. Manian had made matters worse for the fishermen by encouraging them to go beyond the International Maritime Border Line, Mr. Stalin alleged.