CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to storm the Dravidian citadel when he addresses a public meeting at the YMCA grounds in Nandanam in Chennai on May 6.
"We have secured the Election Commission's permission to hold the meeting at the YMCA grounds," BJP national executive member and Al India Coir Board chairman C P Radhakrishnan told reporters at Kamalalayam, the state party headquarters.
He said all BJP candidates and candidates of allies like IJK would be present at the meeting for a joint campaign.
Radhakrishnan said people of Tamil Nadu were fed up with corruption and bad governance of DMK and AIADMK governments in the past 50 years and did not believe in the promises of these parties to bring prohibition.
"DMK lifted the ban on liquor and AIADMK also carried on with the Tasmac shops. Only BJP which has a proven record of implementing total prohibition in Gujarat has the political will to do so in Tamil Nadu. The government would takeover river sand mining in the state if the party came to power so as to generate an alternative source of revenue to compensate for the loss that would be caused by the closure of liquor outlets," he said.