BJP ridicules TN CM’s saffron remark, says DMK aligned with it in 1999

CHENNAI: (Mar 10) Tamil Nadu BJP on Tuesday ridiculed Chief Minister M K Stalin’s remark that the BJP wanted to saffronise the state and said it was late Chief Minister M Karunanidhi who had planned it in 1999.

Referring to the DMK president’s comment at the party’s 12th conference in Tiruchirappalli on March 9, Tamil Nadu BJP's chief spokesperson Narayanan Thirupathy said, “It was your father who planned to make Tamil Nadu a saffron state in 1999.”

He was apparently referring to the DMK joining the NDA then led by A B Vajpayee in 1999. Following the NDA's victory in that election, the DMK leaders were provided berths in the Vajpayee cabinet.