Key Points
PM Modi has seized on a media report on Katchatheevu - based on an RTI reply Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai received - to target the Congress and DMK...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday came down heavily on the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Congress party over the Katchatheevu issue as the BJP intensifies its campaign in Tamil Nadu for the Lok Sabha elections..
Referring to a news report, PM Modi said that new details emerging on Katchatheevu have unmasked the DMK's double standard.g)..
The media report is based on an RTI reply received by Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai to his queries on the 1974 agreement between India and Lanka when Indira Gandhi was the prime minister..
The BJP is hopeful that the issue will come in handy in its efforts to gain political traction in the Dravidian territory during the Lok Sabha polls, more so as it involves neighbouring Sri Lanka whose treatment of its own Tamilian citizens and Tamil Nadu fishermen has long been a charged political issue in the state..
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