Ahead of assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, DMK candidates launched a campaign on Twitter asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to campaign for their opponents in AIADMK, which comes after opinion polls have predicted a big defeat for the ruling party’s coalition with the BJP in the state. 

From Dharmapuri to Tiruvannamalai and Kanchipuram DMK leaders, all on Twitter put their special request for ‘Dear Prime Minister’, as one asked Modi to help widen their “winning margin”, while another asked to help to make his lead over his opponent “even bigger.”

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In DMK’s Twitter campaign, leaders used the same tone in their tweet, which started from Dear Prime Minister and ending with a sarcastic request to Modi to campaign in their constituencies. 

The tweets by DMK leader came the same day when PM Modi held a rally in Tamil Nadu‘s Madurai. 

Earlier in the day, the Income Tax Department raided four places, which are owned by DMK leader MK Stalin’s son-in-law Sabareesan. The Twitter campaign by the opposition party came after DMK approached the Election Commission to intervene in the raid, asking the EC to direct the IT department to refrain from abusing its power. 

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The Twitter campaign first started on Wednesday by DMK’s environment wing secretary Karthikeya Sivasenapathy, who wrote, “Dear prime minister Mr Narendra Modi… pls campaign for Mr S.P. Velumani, local administration minister. I am the dmk candidate against him and it will be very useful for me if you support him. Thank you sir.”

Following Karthikeya, other DMK leaders, including  SM Raja, the incumbent MLA from Tambaram, EV Velu, Ambeth Kumar, A Maharajan, Anitha Radhakrishnan, and Y Prakash followed suit.

The Twitter campaign comes after the opposition party put out advertisements on the front page of newspapers in Tamil Nadu, taking a dig at the ruling AIADMK and their allies by depicting them as the “dreams of the fascists and their slaves.”

The advertisement portrayed CM Edappadi Palaniswami as PM Modi’s “puppet while it said that the AIADMK-BJP coalition would implement NEET for LKG students and rename Tamil Nadu as “Dakshin Pradesh.”