The party chief was addressing reporters in Chennai after holding its first meeting with the state BJP office-bearers ever since its ally AIADMK walked out of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.
In an interview last week, Governor RN Ravi made strongly worded remarks against the state government, including that the state followed a Dravidian model ideology that enforced “linguistic apartheid” and fostered separatist sentiments.
In an interview to TOI, Governor Ravi sought to dismiss the Dravidian model as nothing more than a political slogan, raised in a desperate bid to revive and promote a dead ideology.