 "When Amma is not there Modi is our daddy, India's daddy: AIADMK minister")
When Modi became ‘daddy’
The political equation between the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have changed 180-degrees since AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa's death. In March 2016, Union Minister Piyush Goyal came down heavily on the AIADMK leadership (read Jayalalithaa), saying Tamil Nadu was "a state within a state". Fast forward to 2019, and Goyal can be heard waxing eloquent about Jayalalithaa's pro-poor initiatives and calling her a "true nationalist". Then there is State Minister for Milk and Dairy Development K T Rajenthra Bhalaji, who has just labelled Prime Minister Narendra Modi the "daddy" of Tamil Nadu.
