Chennai:  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday said that PM Narendra Modi should be removed from the post of Prime Minister. The country cannot afford to have him as the PM Modi for a third term, he added.

Stalin in a statement on Wednesday said that Narendra Modi should be removed as the Prime Minister of the country. The last day of the first phase election campaigning in Tamil Nadu, CM Stalin said, Narendra Modi should be removed from the post of Prime Minister. The country cannot afford to have him as the PM for a third term.”

Stalin also alleged the RSS and BJP of attempting to convert India into an autocratic State. The PM Modi and his Cabinet colleagues never responded to his charge that the Centre did not release a single rupee for flood relief works in the state, said Stalin.

This made it clear that the Union Government is against the interests of Tamil Nadu. There is an apprehension among the people that if the BJP gets another chance to rule the country, it will redraw the boundaries of the States and turn India into a unitary state where the Central Government will be the supreme authority, said Stalin. It is important that the BJP is not voted to power in the interests of Tamil Nadu and to safeguard the rights of the states, he added.

The Stalin called former CM Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s decision to go solo in the elections a drama scripted by the BJP, adding that the AIADMK will support the BJP after the elections if the need arises. The 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and the lone seat in Puducherry will go to the polls on April 19^th. The results will be out on June 4^th.