PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss on Thursday said the party’s alliance with the BJP for the Lok Sabha elections has been in existence ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed his office in 2014 and was not formed for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as portrayed by the DMK.
Addressing a public meeting in Vellore in support of NDA candidate, A.C. Shanmugam (Vellore), he said the DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin had questioned how the PMK, a political party that fights for social justice, could join the saffron party that has not openly supported caste census.
Also, the Chief Minister was saying that despite being ideologically different, BJP and PMK had come together only for the Lok Sabha elections. “BJP has never openly said that they are against caste census. Also, our alliance with BJP is not new. Instead, we were together when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister way back in 1998. Our alliance with BJP continues since 2014,” he said.
