Chennai, March 4 -- Following his nomination as a candidate for the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls, MP Tiruchi Siva on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on the BJP, asserting that Tamil Nadu would prove to be the party's "Waterloo", drawing reference to the French military leader Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat in the Battle of Waterloo, which ended his imperial conquest.

Speaking in Chennai after being named as a candidate for the Rajya Sabha polls, the DMK leader said the political contest in Tamil Nadu is fundamentally ideological between the Dravidian policy and the "unilateral" ideology of the NDA led by the BJP.

He further alleged that while the DMK believes in upholding constitutional principles, t...