Chennai, Sep 13 (IANS) DMK president M.Karunandhi Friday expressed his opposition to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi being nominated as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections.
Replying to queries from reporters here, Karunanidhi said: “The DMK will not go back on its principle of opposing communalism whomsoever be the prime ministerial candidate.”
The Bharatiya Janata Party Friday formally declared Modi as its prime ministerial candidate.
Queried about the death sentence awarded to the four convicts for the rape and murder of a young woman in New Delhi last December, he said: “Though I have a different view on the death penalty, in this case, the judges have given the right verdict.”
