"Real women's day celebration will be to root out DMK govt": BJP's Tamilisai Soundararajan

Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 8 (ANI): In a sharp attack on the Tamil Nadu government, BJP leader Tamilisai Soundararajan said on Saturday that the real women's day celebration would be to root out the DMK government and bring in a coalition government including the BJP in 2026.
Speaking to ANI, the BJP leader claimed that the girl child in Tamil Nadu is not safe.
"I thank the Prime Minister for selecting Vaishali (Chess grandmaster) to handle his social media. Since girl child studying in Tamil Nadu are not safe, the real women's day celebration will be to root out DMK government and bring in coalition government including BJP in 2026. Our oath today is to root out the DMK government," Tamilisai said.
Earlier on Thursdya, Tamilisai Soundarajan was stopped by police in her attempt to carry forward the BJP Signature Campaign in support of the National Education Policy in Chennai.
Tamilisai Soundararajan, BJP State President K Annamalai, and others participated in the campaign questioning DMK's opposition to the three-language policy under NEP. The BJP leader Soundararajan questioned why children are denied the opportunity to study another language which will open new job opportunities.
"Why the government children are denied studying another language which will give them ample opportunities for jobs or further studies? We want the NEP to be followed so that the same education system is followed in the central board examinations, state board examinations, as well as in the government board examinations...," she said.
BJP state president Annamalai claimed that police have "arrested" Tamilisai Soundararajan and said the party will not back down.
Annamalai, taking to X, claimed, "The Tamil Nadu Police have arrested Dr Tamilisai, former Governor of Telangana and Puducherry, who was leading a signature campaign on behalf of BJP Tamilnadu in Chennai today in support of the National Education Policy, which provides poor and vulnerable children with quality education and the opportunity to learn their preferred languages."
Annamalai accused DMK of "making" Tamil a commercial language for sixty years and allowing the trilingual policy only in private schools. He added that People have understood the "drama" of DMK and CM Stalin and there's a massive support for the trilingual policy.
The Tamil Nadu government has strongly opposed implementing the New Education Policy (NEP) of 2020, raising concern over the "three-language formula" and alleging that the Centre wants to 'impose' Hindi.
Tamil Nadu CM Stalin has urged the people to "rise" to defend the state in a fight against the delimitation of constituencies and the three-language policy. Stalin criticised the three-language policy, saying that it had resulted in the Centre withholding the state's funds and that delimitation would now 'affect' the state's representation. (ANI)