Chief Minister MK Stalin greeted Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge at an election campaign meeting in Hosur on Sunday. | Photo credit: N. BASHKARAN
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s televised address to the nation was an act of desperation, an attempt at “damage control” that suffered a defeat in Parliament (during a vote on a delimitation-related constitutional amendment bill) where they had a majority, DMK leader and Chief Minister MK Stalin said in Hosur on Sunday.
“It was a political speech full of innuendo against the opposition under the guise of the national flag. The speech belonged to the election campaign and was a government speech. It was also against the election code,” Stalin said. It is the “weaponisation of the Delimitation Act under the guise of women’s reservation” during the elections that has boomed badly for Mr Modi and is coming back to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), he observed.
Published – 19 Apr 2026 23:37 IST
