India, April 22 -- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday invoked Dravidian roots to seek votes for the NDA candidates in the run-up to the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.

Invoking Tamil pride, the TDP chief said he came here to remind the people of the southern State about their future and appealed to them to vote for the National Democratic Alliance candidates. Addressing a press conference, he said Tamil Nadu is the cradle of Dravidian (South Indian) culture and observed that Tamil and Telugu people were together under the Madras Presidency during the British colonial time before independence.

"You are all aware that Tamil Nadu is the cradle of Dravidian culture. We are all Dravidians. Historically, if you can go thr...