BJP’s Khushbu asks whether Tamil women will vote for DMK in return for ‘Rs 1,000 alms’, kicks up a row

However, the comments by Khushbu, who is the BJP’s probable candidate from Central Chennai, has triggered strong reactions from the ruling DMK. The DMK members on social media slammed Khushbu for lowering the dignity of Tamil women by equating them to those who beg for a living.

“It’s not something new for Khushbhu to slander common public .The party she belongs works that way,” Padma Priya, state deputy secretary of DMK IT wing, noted.

Khushbu, also a member of BJP’s national executive committee, accused Chief Minister M K Stalin of not taking any measure to address narcotics trafficking in the state even after the arrest of drug kingpin A R Jaffer Sadiq, who was previously a DMK functionary, a few days ago.

Jaffar was accused of being the kingpin in a Rs 2,000-crore international drug trafficking racket in Delhi. He was later expelled from DMK’s primary membership.

Khushbu said the DMK’s only focus is on acquiring more wealth for the welfare of its family members. She slammed the DMK government for allegedly cheating the people of the state with their Rs 1,000 financial assistance scheme to women.

She further added that many from Congress are making their way to BJP as they have realised that BJP is the only political organisation which is capable of doing welfare to the nation and Narendra Modi is the best leader in the globe.

As Khushbhu’s speech began to be shared widely on social media, she took to X to justify her comments on Tamil women. She said DMK needs Khushbu to stay afloat in the news and all she said in her speech was to control the drug menace.

She claimed that no one condemned former union minister Murasoli Maran’s statement when he commented in 1982 that free meals to the poor provided by then Chief Minister MG Ramachandran was a pitchai (alms) thrown at them. She also cited examples of DMK leaders like K Ponmudi and EV Velu making objectionable remarks against women and the people of the state.

“All of you were blind, mute and deaf then? All I say is stop drug menace, cut your commission from tasmac,” she said.

Further, she added that the amount of pain the women go through by drunken men is much more than the government’s share of income from state-owned Tasmac.