Sudhakar Reddy blames social media for misleading portrayal of Annamalai’s decision to withdraw from election work

Senior BJP leader Sudhakar Reddy, national co-in charge for Tamil Nadu, on Thursday, on Thursday blamed social media for “misleadingly projecting” former party State president S. Annamalai’s intention to withdraw from (Assembly) election duty.

“Mr. Annamalai clearly attributed a personal reason (looking after his ailing father),” he retorted, to a query by mediapersons.

Mr. Reddy spoke after launching the party’s ‘Ungal Kural, Engal Seyal’ (your voice, our action) mobile app as an interface for people to raise issues they face, and taking part in the ‘Modi Muhaam’ (camp)’.

On the same issue, Vanathi Srinivasan, Coimbatore South MLA, and BJP Mahila Morcha national president, who accompanied Mr. Reddy, earlier in a media interaction sought to clear the air by saying that the party has acknowledged Mr. Annamalai’s stand on the difficulty in undertaking party work in constituencies scattered across the State. “All of us in the BJP are eager to see Mr. Annamalai’s entry into the State Assembly,” Ms. Vanathi said.

Flaying the DMK government for scrapping all the women-oriented beneficiary schemes, including the subsidised two-wheeler and ‘Thalikku Thangam’ scheme introduced by late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, the MLA said Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s reverie to assume power again will never fructify. “The people of Tamil Nadu, on the other hand, will realise their dream to dislodge the DMK government,” she said.

The on-going camp, conducted for the first time in Coimbatore with the participation of local-level AIADMK leaders and members, facilitates people to benefit from Central Government schemes, Ms. Srinivasan added.

The ‘Modi Muhaam’ camp witnessed enrolment of children between one and 10 years in the Postal Department’s Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana savings scheme, distribution of identity cards for the ₹5 lakh medical insurance for senior citizens, handing over of prosthetic limbs for differently-abled beneficiaries, and a free eye camp.