CM Palaniswami, DMK chief Stalin trade barbs in campaign trail
Chief Minister K Palaniswami Saturday lashed out at arch rival DMK,dubbing it a "chameleon" for shifting its stand for power while DMK chief M K Stalin trained his guns on the AIADMK, saying it has forgotten late J Jayalalithaa,who opposed Prime Minister Modi.
Palaniswami, spearheading the ruling party's election campaign at Vellore, said DMK was akin to a chameleon which changed its colours quite too often.
"DMK has shifted its stand many a times for the sake of power and the word chameleon applies only to it and no other party. The alliance led by it is an opportunistic alliance," he said, adding that the AIADMK was a combine wedded to people's welfare.
Though the Centre discontinued subsidy for the Haj pilgrimage (following a Supreme Court directive for gradual withdrawal of subsidy), the AIADMK government continued it providing Rs six crore for it, he said in the city, which has several pockets of Muslims.
"Amma's government had always been a fortress in protecting .