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DMK to support ‘Dravida Naadu’ proposal if mooted by Southern States: Stalin

Friday, March 16, 2018 • Common Comments
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DMK to support ‘Dravida Naadu’ proposal if mooted by Southern States: Stalin

DMK’s working president M.K. Stalin has said that the party would support the separate ‘Dravida Naadu’ proposal if the same is mooted jointly by Southern States.

Of late, almost all the incumbent Governments in South Indian States – Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Telengana and Puducherry – have been at loggerheads on several issues with the BJP-led Centre.

Andhra Pradesh chief-minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president Chandrababu Naidu even went to the extent of brining into the open the ‘North-South’ divide when he went on record stating that the Centre was only making North Indian States richer by using the revenue it earned through the efforts of people of South Indian States.

Kerala had once proposed the combined ‘Dravida Naadu’ containing all the South Indian States as a single entity. In recent months, Karnataka expressed its opposition to the imposition of Hindi like never before. Telengana has also been voicing the proposal to suture up a non-Congress, non-BJP front as an alternative to the two national parties.

Speaking to newsmen at Erode this afternoon, Stalin was replying to a query about the probability of South Indian States getting together to moot the proposal of forming a separate ‘Dravida Naadu’. Replying to the query, Stalin said that the DMK would certainly support such a proposal as and when it takes concrete shape.

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