Chennai: PMK leader in the State Assembly G K Mani eulogized the DMK government for the excellent work done to combat the Coronavirus and also for presenting the exclusive Agriculture Budget, saying that in appreciation of that all his party MLAs had turned up in the House with green shawls.
Though the PMK is still part of the alliance led by the opposition AIADMK, Mani was generous in paying encomiums to Chief Minister M K Stalin in providing the 10.5 per cent exclusive reservation for Vanniyars.
He wanted such compartmentalized reservation to be provided for all communities in the interest of social justice and urged the government to bring in total prohibition and compensate for the revenue loss by increasing mineral sand mining.
Mani’s demand to reduce the price of LPG cylinders as it was done for petrol evoked a response from Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, who explained that the rate of cooking gas was controlled by the Union Government and the gas companies.
The State government had no say on the pricing of LPG gas, Thaiga Rajan said.
