NE NEWS SERVICE
COIMBATORE, MARCH 7
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has said that V K Sasikala, confidante of the late chief minister J Jayalalithaa, would bring about changes in Tamil Nadu politics after her release from the Parappana Agarahara prison in Bengaluru.
Talking to reporters in Coimbatore on Friday, Mr. Swamy said Sasikala cannot be eliminated from Tamil Nadu politics easily. Sasikala who is undergoing prison term after her conviction in the disproportionate assets case is expected to be released in February 2021.
“There will be changes in Tamil Nadu politics after her release. It will be difficult to eliminate her from politics in Tamil Nadu once she comes out,” Swamy said. “She has experience, talent and a whole community behind her,” he added. Mr. Swamy, however, pointed out that she cannot contest in elections for six years after being released.
Stating that there was no hurry in appointing the party’s state president for Tamil Nadu, Mr. Swamy said BJP is capable of winning the assembly election and forming a government in the state on its own. But no attempts have been made yet in that direction, he said.
Swamy dismissed a query on actor Kamal Haasan’s prospects by asking, `Who is Kamal?’ even as he expressed his willingness to support Rajnikanth given the actor stand on Hinduism.
“I will support him if he stands for Hinduism. If he speaks the same way he spoke at Tughlaq anniversary event, I will help him,” Swamy said.
On the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Swamy said there was nothing which is anti-Muslim in the legislation. “There is nothing wrong in protests in a democracy, but lies should not be peddled to stoke fear,” Mr. Swamy added.
