CHENNAI: Leaders from all parties except the BJP were invited to celebrate DMK supremo Karunanidhi's 94th birthday party held at the YMCA grounds in Chennai. Guests included Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah and CPM leader Sitaram Yechury. All of them addressed thousands of cadres gathered, and lashed out at the nationally ruling party- a warning siren for Narendra Modi's party as they hinted of a united opposition.
Gandhi did what he was good at, cursing NaMo for imposing its ideologies on to other states. “Every single one of us, be it Omar, Derek O'Brien of Trinamool Congress, or Nitish, value the Tamil language as we know the Tamil culture makes India stronger. None of us has the arrogance to tell you how you should live. But there is an ideology in India which we will always fight against... they think they have all the answers.” Omar Abdullah said there could not be a non-Congress ruled country.
“We want to tell the BJP you can't dream of a country without the Congress and the Opposition,” he said. Karuna's political journey was lauded and so was DMK working president MK Stalin's way of handling politics. Nitish Kumar hinted that Stalin would become the people's leader and will walk on his father's footsteps.
