On Wednesday, the PM laid the foundation stone for multiple development projects, including a new launch complex of ISRO. The facility at Kulasekarapattinam, near here, is worth about Rs 986 crore and the facility is set to accommodate 24 launches per year.He also laid the foundation stone for the outer harbour container terminal for VO Chidambaranar Port and flagged off India’s first indigenous green hydrogen waterway vessel. He launched projects in the rail sector as well.Further, he launched blistering attacks on the Congress and DMK, particularly training his guns against the latter, which is ruling Tamil Nadu. Modi charged the two with creating divisions in society and coming up with ‘innovative ideas’ for this purpose.Criticising the DMK for staging a walkout in Parliament during a recent discussion on the Ayodhya Shri Ram temple, he alleged the DMK has again proved its hate for people’s faith.”Tamil Nadu’s connection with Shri Ram is well-known. Before the January 22 consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, I visited different temples, including in Dhanushkodi (in TN). The entire country was happy that the temple was coming up after so many years. A related matter came up in the Parliament but the DMK MPs ran away,” Modi said at a rally in neighbouring Tirunelveli.He also criticised the DMK for being ‘oblivious’ to the nation’s achievements in the space sector after a newspaper advertisement by a state minister belonging to the party over a spaceport kicked up a row over what the BJP claimed had a ‘Chinese flag’.The BJP’s accusation was only political in nature, DMK spokesperson J Constandine Ravindran said.On Tuesday, Modi attended multiple events in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, addressing public rallies as well as engaging in official programmes.Among them was the all-important announcement revealing the names of the four IAF pilots—the astronaut-designates of the country’s maiden human spaceflight programme, Gaganyaan.He bestowed them with the prestigious ‘astronaut wings,’ at an event at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), located at Thumba near Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram.
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