Chennai, April 8 -- Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader TKS Elangovan on Wednesday raised a strong criticism against the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), calling the party a "blackmailer" over remarks of Madurai Metro development only after the BJP will gain power, questioning the kind of governance being performed by the party.

Speaking to ANI on the Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's statement on the Madurai metro, he slammed the central government, saying that they had already rejected Metro projects in Coimbatore and Madurai despite both cities being major commercial and industrial hubs.

"How can you say that only if a BJP MP wins from Madurai, then the city will get metro rail? They had already rejected the project both ...