Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chopper ride from Chennai Airport to Mahabalipuram yesterday, DMK’s working president M.K. Stalin has said that however high the Prime Minister might fly now, he would surely have to come down (to the land) during (next year’s Lok Sabha) polls.

Stalin has been on a ‘Cauvery rights retrieval’ walkathon since last Saturday demanding the immediate setting up of a Cauvery Management Board (CMB) by the Centre to ensure fair and proper sharing of Cauvery water by the States of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry as per the Supreme Court’s directions delivered in its verdict dated 16th February this year.

Commencing his walkathon from the famed Vaidheeswaran Temple in Nagapattinam District, Stalin walked for some time with farmers accompanying him.  He later entered Chidambaram and addressed a public meeting.  “I’m happy that people have responded positively and in huge numbers in displaying black-flags to the Prime Minister in Chennai.

“We had waged such protest against Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi in the past,” he said and said that authorities hurriedly constructed a helipad at Mamallapuram for the Prime Minister’s chopper to land.  “Prime Minister is obviously not courageous enough to travel by road and face our black flag demonstration.  However high he might fly (by air) now, he would have to come down to earh during polls,” he said.