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While addressing a rally in Madurai, Shah took a jibe at Stalin and said that Tamil Nadu chief minister rightly says that he (Shah) cannot defeat the DMK.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah (PTI file)
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday vowed to end Chief Minister MK Stalin rule in Tamil Nadu and asserted that BJP is going to form a government in the state.
Riding high on confidence on the back of the BJP’s recent election wins in Odisha, Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi, Shah vowed the saffron party will also be successful in defeating their rivals in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal next year, and form government.
While addressing a rally in Madurai, Shah took a jibe at Stalin and said that Tamil Nadu chief minister rightly says that he (Shah) cannot defeat the DMK. This is because the people of Tamil Nadu would hand a loss to the DMK in the assembly elections next year.
“The NDA government of the BJP-AIADMK alliance will be formed here in 2026. I live in Delhi, but my ears are always on Tamil Nadu. MK Stalin says that Amit Shah cannot defeat DMK. He is right. It’s not me, but the people of Tamil Nadu will defeat you,” he said as quoted by news agency ANI.
#WATCH | Madurai, Tamil Nadu | Union Home Minister Amit Shah says, “The NDA government of the BJP-AIADMK alliance will be formed here in 2026. I live in Delhi, but my ears are always on Tamil Nadu. MK Stalin says that Amit Shah cannot defeat DMK. He is right. It’s not me, but the… pic.twitter.com/N2s7HMnByL— ANI (@ANI) June 8, 2025
At the starting of his address, Shah apologised for not knowing Tamil, which he described as “one of the greatest languages.”
“I apologise to my BJP workers of Tamil Nadu as I cannot talk to them in one of the greatest languages of India – Tamil,” he said.
The Union Minister further demanded the Staling government that the medical and engineering be taught in the Tamil language soon.
“I want to repeat my demand from the Tamil Nadu government that medical and engineering be taught in the Tamil language soon. PM Modi respected Tamil Nadu by installing Sengol in parliament, and I expect MK Stalin to write a letter to the PM to thank him for it,” he said.
Shah further launched a scathing attack on DMK saying that it crossed all limits of corruption in the last four years of its tenure.
“The DMK government in Tamil Nadu has crossed all limits of corruption. They committed a huge scam by handing over the Rs 450 crore nutrition kits provided by the Central government to a private company, and deprived the poor of food,” Shah alleged while addressing party workers.
He also claimed that the state government also committed a sand mining scam to the tune of Rs 4,600 crore, causing poor people of the state to buy sand at inflated prices just to help the ruling party to mint money.
BJP-AIADMK Alliance
After two years, the BJP and the AIADMK have formed an alliance again to contest the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections scheduled for next year.
The BJP and AIADMK contested together in the 2021 Tamil Nadu elections when Palaniswami was the Chief Minister. However, the NDA lost the elections to DMK and its alliance partners, only managing to win 75 seats out of 234 constituencies. The AIADMK won 66 seats, while the BJP managed only four seats.
The two parties went solo in the Lok Sabha and failed to win a single seat in Tamil Nadu. However, the BJP’s vote share in the state increased significantly under K Annamalai’s leadership.
Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers India and International news. He is interested in day to day political affairs in India and geopolitics. He earned his BA Journalism (Hons) degree from Ben…Read More
Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers India and International news. He is interested in day to day political affairs in India and geopolitics. He earned his BA Journalism (Hons) degree from Ben… Read More
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