Chennai, May 22 -- Tamil Nadu's ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazagham (DMK) president MK Stalin on Tuesday launched an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that he was inciting hatred, a day after the latter's comments that the missing keys of Lord Jagannath's treasury in Odisha had gone to Tamil Nadu.

Rebutting Stalin's statement, Tamil Nadu's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president K Annamalai said that the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is promoting an "outsider"-- VK Pandian, a Tamilian without respecting the people of Odisha and its culture.

Stalin said that the PM's remarks were aimed at maligning the image of the Tamils for the sake of votes. "The Prime Minister should stop defaming Tamil Nadu and Tamils for votes," Stalin said in a ...