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DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Saturday sought to revoke the anti-Hindi card and portray BJP’s prime ministerial candidate as an outsider.

Addressing the Lok Sabha election campaign here, the former chief minister said, “Hindi language should not enter the state... We have to teach Narendra Modi that here there is no place for him here. Neither Modi nor any other person can enter Tamil Nadu.”

Karunanidhi was addressing the meeting to seek votes for Pongalur N Palanisamy (Pollachi), K Ganeskumar (Coimbatore) and A Raja (Nilgiris) at the VOC Grounds here.

“Ever since I was a 13-year-old, I had affinity towards the Tamil language which forced me to fight a battle against the Hindi language.

The same affinity for Tamil has not left me till today, even though I am 91 years old, declared a proud Karunanidhi.

The youth should voice their strong opposition considering the fact that he took up the issue when he was just 13, he said.

“No one should enslave us as we are Tamils. I believe that Tamil affinity is present in party youths and therefore they will protect DMK in future,” added Karunanidhi.

The 91-year-old leader said he was ready to work for another 50 years if the public gave him an assurance to “live as Tamilans, not as slaves”.

He also said that this is time to provide good governance to the public.

Winning Lok Sabha elections is not the DMK’s sole aim. This is only a part of its larger political journey.

In a lighter vein, he added that the people of Tamil Nadu gave him leisure time instead of giving chief ministership for the sixth time.

“I have been working continuously and I don’t know if this election might be the last election for me,” he quipped.

“We will work by way of sacrificing our lives to protect the democracy of Tamil Nadu apart from Tamil culture,” added the DMK supremo.