In yet another controversial move highlighting the perceived anti-Indian stance of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a recent advertisement by DMK Minister Thiru Anita Radhakrishnan has stirred a storm of criticism.

 

 

 

The advertisement published by the DMK Minister features big pictures of PM Modi and Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin and a rocket with the Chinese flag between them. It also features the CM's son Udhayanidhi Stalin.The ad is apparently for the new ISRO rocket launch site in Kulasekarapattinam town in Thoothukudi district, where PM Modi is laying the foundation stone.

 

 

 

 

 

“DMK, a party fighting high on corruption, has been desperate to paste stickers ever since the announcement of ISRO’s second launch pad in Kulasekarapatinam was released,” Annamalai wrote on his social media platform X. Further criticising DMK, he said the “amount of desperation only proves their attempt to bury their past misdeeds, but we must remind them that DMK was why the Satish Dhawan Space Centre is today in Andhra Pradesh and not Tamil Nadu.”

 

“When the 1st launch pad of ISRO was conceptualised, TN was the first choice of ISRO. TN CM Thiru Annadurai, who could not attend the meeting because of severe shoulder pain, deputed Mathiyazhagan, one of his ministers, for the meeting,” he said.

 

“ISRO officials were kept waiting for a long, and Mathiyazhagan was finally brought to the meeting in an “inebriated state” & was incoherent throughout the meeting. And, this was the treatment our country’s space programme received 60 years ago,” he said.