S Gurumurthy gets facts wrong in jibe, AIADMK upset

CHENNAI: A factually incorrect tweet by RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy, questioning the rationale behind terming the rout of the NDA in Tamil Nadu as a fallout of the anti-Modi wave, has caused uneasiness and resentment in the ruling AIADMK. Interestingly, the RSS ideologue had earlier suggested that the BJP must align with the AIADMK.
Gurumurthy tweeted that the AIADMK lost 2 seats by 5 lakh plus votes, another 5 seats by 4 lakh plus votes and 5 more seats by 3 lakh plus votes.On the other hand, the BJP’s loss was by less than 2 lakh votes in two seats and by less than 3 lakh votes in 1 seat, only in one seat its margin of loss was more than 3 lakh votes, he tweeted.

He asked, “If it was anti-Modi wave, the BJP should have lost all seats by 4 to 5 lakh plus (votes). Who’s anti wave it is then?” He said “very responsible people” were carried away by the propaganda that there was an anti-Modi wave, when the facts did not seem to support it.
His reaction also came in the wake of actor Rajinikant saying there was an anti-Modi wave in Tamil Nadu. Interestingly, Gurumurthy was incorrect on facts – going by the election commission website, the AIADMK did not lose two seats by five lakh plus margin. It was the PMK, an AIADMK ally, that lost by five lakh plus votes in Dindigul and Sriperumbudur.
The AIADMK lost only two seats by a margin of three lakh plus votes. Other defeats with more than three lakh vote margin were that of its allies including two seats of the BJP.
The tweets have not gone down well with the AIADMK. Minister Sellur K Raju said no one takes Gurumurthy seriously. His colleague K T Rajenthra Bhalaji said people who have not contested polls should not comment on results. “It (LS poll results) is not an anti-EPS or anti-Modi mandate,” he said.