Chennai: Tamil Nadu BJP vice president BT Arasakumar, who recently praised DMK president at a function, officially joined the MK Stalin-led party on Thursday.
Though earlier he had denied possibility of joining the DMK, Arasakumar said that he had lost self respect and hence decided to join Stalin's party.
"I was abused in the last few days ever since my speech went viral. I did explain my stance to BJP leader Muralidhar Rao who asked me to wait for a few days. I am not going to criticise the BJP but BJP workers should understand the truth and then take a decision. There is no meaning for me to continue in that party especially after losing my self respect. My well-wishers said that I don’t want have to be with the BJP and therefore, I decided to go back to my mother organisation which is the DMK. I’m happy to join it,” Arasakumar said.
The Tamil Nadu unit of BJP had sought disciplinary action against Arasakumar on Monday after a video of him praising Stalin went viral, where he was heard saying that a ripe time would come when DMK president M K Stalin would become chief minister of the state.
Taking serious note of the matter, the party state unit sent a report to the BJP high command seeking disciplinary action against Arasakumar.
The press release issued by the party’s state general secretary KS Narendran further stated that Arasakumar will be barred from participating in media debates or any BJP event till the party high command decides on action to be taken against Arasakumar.
Arasakumar was in Pudukottai district to attend the wedding ceremony of a DMK cadre presided by Stalin, where a host of party leaders from DMK and Congress were present.
In his brief speech at the function, which has gone viral in the social media, Kumar said after late AIADMK Supremo and former Chief Minister M G Ramachandran, it was a leader like Stalin that he would look upto.
Kumar went on to say that if the DMK leader wanted to become Chief Minister it would have happened over night.
"He would have gone to Koovathur and have become Chief Minister in one night", he said in an apparent reference to private beach resort in Koovathur near Chennai, where over 100 AIADMK MLAs supporting then AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala were put up, ahead of a floor test in 2017.
"Ripe time will come, things will take place automatically. Thalapathi (as Stalin is called by his followers) will ascend the (Chief Minister's) throne," he said.
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