Loan waiver with eye on Assembly ballot: Stalin
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DMK president M.K. Stalin on Friday stated Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami “hurriedly” introduced the waiver of farm loans obtained from cooperative societies because the DMK had already promised to waive the quantity on returning to energy.
“It is an announcement made by the Chief Minister with an eye on the forthcoming Assembly election,” he stated at a gathering organised in Pattaandivilai, close to Nattaaththi, within the Srivaikundam Assembly constituency on Friday night.
According to him, the ruling AIADMK had understood that its authorities would come to an finish in three months, and it was doing all the pieces doable to revive the sagging electoral prospects, however in useless. Similarly, the Chief Minister, just like the “flash of light before death”, had made an announcement within the Assembly in regards to the waiver of cooperative society loans, he stated.
“The Chief Minister, who refused to do it (loan waiver) when the farmers were appealing to him and even when the court told him, has made the announcement now,” the DMK president stated.
“As I have been promising voters for two months that that DMK will waive cooperative society loans, Mr. Palaniswami has made the announcement, eyeing the ensuing Assembly polls,” Mr. Stalin stated.
‘Will cancel tenders’
Accusing the AIADMK authorities of awarding contracts to the tune of ₹2,885 crore in direction of the tip of its tenure, Mr. Stalin additionally warned that when voted to energy, his authorities would cancel these tenders.
“After three months, when the DMK comes to power, these tenders will be cancelled. The tenders for the contracts [for the various projects] will be awarded afresh in a transparent manner,” he stated at an Ungal Thoguthiyil Stalin political outreach programme in Kovilpatti.
He stated Mr. Palaniswami was heading “the most corrupt criminal Cabinet”. According to him, Mr. Palaniswami and his Ministerial colleagues would land within the Puzhal Central Prison in Chennai after three months “for having indulged in worst corruption in the history of Tamil Nadu”.
“The place you deserve is not Fort St. George… but Puzhal Central Prison, where you will be after three months for the corruption you are all involved in. This is governance being given by and for the corrupt and not for the people,” he alleged.
While the case towards the Chief Minister pertaining to alleged irregularities in awarding of tenders was handed over to the CBI by the Madras High Court [stayed by Supreme Court], the judiciary was analyzing a plea for a CBI probe into the alleged accumulation of disproportionate property towards Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam, he stated.
The DMK chief charged different Ministers, together with S.P. Velumani, Thangamani, C. Vijayabaskar and D. Jayakumar, with indulging in corruption. According to him, Mr. Palaniswami or his Cabinet colleagues had not “refuted” corruption expenses levelled towards them in a DMK memorandum submitted to the Governor.
Targeting Information Minister Kadambur C. Raju in his Kovilpatti constituency, he charged him with failing to implement growth works, together with laying of roads and executing consuming water schemes..
“As the Assembly election is approaching fast, the Minister is hurriedly laying foundation stones for new roads and schemes only to be completed in the worst quality,” Mr. Stalin charged.
Some contributors on the assembly aired grievances, and sought motion towards these answerable for the police firing on the anti-Sterlite protesters.
Mr. Stalin stated grievances registered by DMK cadre on the venue, with acknowledgement carrying the registration quantity, can be resolved inside 100 days of the social gathering coming to energy.
