The results of the Lok Sabha elections, in which the DMK-led alliance has made a clean sweep by winning all the 40 seats in the State and the neighboring Union Territory of Puducherry, pointed to the total lack of support among the people for an autocratic dictatorial form of government in the country, Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Wednesday. In his epistle to party workers, Stalin pointed out that the rejection of communal forces that had tried to make political gains out of people’s religious beliefs and the faithful forcing those who built temples to bite the dust in their own land had taken away the fears that hitherto lurked in the minds of the minorities in the country. By lifting all the 40 seats they contested, the DMK and its allies had reined in dictatorship, enabling the sprouting of hopes for a democratic revival and given the promise of the INDIA coalition setting out to undertake the task of protecting the safeguards provided by the Constitution of India, he said, thanking the cadre for the hard work that they had put in to ensure the overwhelming victory.
That democracy had been upheld and protected was indicated by the results that had provided near equal representation for the ruling NDA and the INDIA coalition in Parliament and by making it evident that the people had lost confidence in the party that had high hopes of winning a majority on its own, he said. Urging the cadre to shun ostentatious celebrations and mark the massive victory through action .
