A few hours after BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised late AIADMK leader and former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa at an election meeting in Salem, DMK treasurer T.R. Baalu on Tuesday questioned this ‘love’ for the late leader.
Though the AIADMK leaders had objected to Mr. Modi praising their late leaders M.G. Ramachandran and Jayalalithaa, Mr. Modi was going about praising them, Mr. Baalu said, adding: “The people of Tamil Nadu have not forgotten that Jayalalithaa had posed - ‘Do you want Gujarat’s Modi or this lady from Tamil Nadu?’” Going by his praise, it looked like Mr. Modi would go and sit in the Jayalalithaa’s memorial and keep his eyes closed...”
