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"DMK and AIADMK have ruined democratic fabric"

Staff Reporter

CAMPAIGN TRAIL: Bandaru Dattatareya (left), Sushma Swaraj cheer for the BJP's Tambaram candidate, V.R. Sivaraman on Tuesday. — Photo: A. Muralitharan

TAMBARAM: Former Union Minister and spokesperson of the BJP, Sushma Swaraj today lashed out at the DMK and AIADMK, charging them with ruining the democratic fabric of the country.

Addressing an election meeting at West Tambaram on Tuesday evening, where she campaigned for V.R. Sivaraman, her party's candidate from Tambaram constituency, she said the two Dravidian parties behaved as if they were each other's enemies. In a democracy opposition and ruling parties should only oppose each other, but should not be enemies and there should be a cordial atmosphere.

"But in Tamil Nadu both these parties have created and established an atmosphere of animosity and behave as if they were each other's enemy," Ms. Sushma Swaraj remarked.

The need of the hour was that sober and vigilant people should enter Legislative Assemblies and should make the atmosphere more cordial. Recalling that UPA government at the centre had come to power on the platform of the "common man", she said soon after they come to power, they had totally forgotten him (common man).

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