Chennai, June 10 -- Amit Shah is trying to disturb the peace in a harmonious state like Tamil Nadu, said DMK's A Raja on Monday while emphasising that the Union home minister's speech attacking them a day ago were"blatant lies".

"His speech was three things - disgusting, blatant lies without evidence and divisive," Raja said in a press conference. Shah in Madurai on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the MK Stalin-led DMK government for "rising corruption, crimes against women and drug mafia" over the last four years and said that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would form the government in Tamil Nadu in the 2026 assembly elections.

"Their communal politics does not work here. People of Tamil Nadu have repeatedly shown the BJP ...