CHENNAI: State BJP president Nainar Nagenthran on Saturday courted an issue with a private comment in opposition to Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay, recalling the latter’s latest “father’s lacking” remark within the meeting.Ministers and TVK leaders condemned Nagenthran’s remarks, dubbing them “uncivilised.” BJP vice-president Khushbu Sundar additionally condemned it. Nevertheless, Nainar Nagenthran rejected the costs and acknowledged that his comment was misrepresented.Talking at a e book launch programme on the BJP headquarters right here, Nagenthran was apparently referring to Vijay’s remarks on former chief minister M K Stalin’s defeat in his Kolathur constituency. Nagenthran went on to make a distasteful comment.Well being and household welfare minister Ok G Arunraj hit again at Nagenthran, saying that the TVK govt would reply to such remarks by way of its actions and never phrases. Faculty schooling minister A Rajmohan mentioned the BJP chief’s comment was “uncivilised” and never anticipated from an individual holding a excessive put up.“BJP chief spoke like a third-rate street-corner speaker. It’s unfit for his place and dignity. Nevertheless, we are going to keep on with the respectable and civilised politics taught by our chief,” mentioned the minister.BJP chief Khushbu Sundar got here down heavy on Nagenthran over his “crude and unacceptable remarks concentrating on the Tamil Nadu chief minister’s mom.”Referring to PM Narendra Modi’s Nari Shakti imaginative and prescient, she in a X put up pressured that degrading ladies crossed all political boundaries and hits beneath the belt. “Ladies will not be pawns in political battles,” she mentioned and urged politicians to critique insurance policies, not goal ladies’s dignity.Former BJP state chief and We the Leaders founder Ok Annamalai additionally condemned Nagenthran’s remarks. He mentioned they’d “crossed the boundaries of political decency” and that making remarks in regards to the members of the family of a politician was unacceptable.Nagenthran took to social media and posted that his speech was fully devoid of ulterior motives. “To these misrepresenting my phrases for political acquire: I stay deeply dedicated to the mom, the motherland, and the mom tongue,” he mentioned.
