Tamil Nadu BJP president K. Annamalai on Saturday, July 29, 2023 said it was the DMK that had to carry out a yatra to the pilgrimage site of Rameswaram to absolve itself of its sins.
He was responding to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s speech, in which he accused the BJP of commencing its yatra in Tamil Nadu to absolve itself of its many sins such as the Gujarat riots of 2002 and the ongoing violence in Manipur. Talking to the media after an interaction with a group of fishermen at Mandapam near here, he said Rameswaram would be an apt place for Mr. Stalin and his family to absolve themselves of their sins.
Earlier in a tweet, he alleged that it was the DMK and the party’s “first family” that had committed many sins which, according to him, included the ceding of Katchatheevu to Sri Lanka, the killing of Tamil fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy during the United Progressive Alliance’s rule and the killing of Tamil people during the final Eelam War.
