CHENNAI: ANS Prasad, spokesperson of the Tamil Nadu BJP, has questioned Chief Minister MK Stalin, who was jailed during the Congress-imposed Emergency, on why he has chosen today to align with the very same party.
Prasad argues that this history is now being selectively forgotten.
During election seasons, he says, the same DMK leadership that once denounced Congress tyranny abandons its self-respect ideology, travels to Delhi, and seeks electoral alliances with the Congress.
Prasad contends that Tamil Nadu today deserves a new cinematic reckoning — MISA prisoner Stalin — to document the brutal tortures of the Emergency, the dismissal of the DMK government, Congress betrayals of Tamil interests, and its role in the Sri Lankan Tamil tragedy.