Govts will change at Centre, Tamil Nadu too, says DMK chief MK Stalin
Dindigul: Stepping up on his campaign decibels, DMK president MK Stalin on Tuesday claimed there would be change of governments both at the Centre and in Tamil Nadu after the votes are counted in the April 18 elections. And when that happens, his party would carry out all its promises made in the poll manifesto he had released at the DMK headquarters in Chennai on March 19 before launching on the campaign trips, Stalin declared at a huge DMK-led UPA rally here.
Listing out the poll promises, particularly those relevant to this region, Stalin said top on his agenda on assuming charge at the Fort St.George would be to order comprehensive probe into the death of Jayalalithaa and "send all those found responsible to jail", which all the genuine AIADMK cadres would wholeheartedly approve.
The DMK chief referred to the Pollachi sex scam and accused the government and the police of complicity and insensitivity though it was now suspected that over 200 young women were victims of brutal exploitation and some of them had even died or committed suicide. "This government, with Centre's backing, is now blaming the DMK in this sex scam only to divert the probe", Stalin alleged.
Referring to media reports of pregnant women dying in government hospitals in Dharmapuri, Hosur and Krishnagiri due to transfusion of HIV-infected blook, he said, "I openly charge this government with murdering these poor women".
Lashing out at the state cabinet accusing it of high corruption and even buffoonery, Stalin said Forest Minister Dindigul Srinivasan has been notorious for his guffaws. The minister had first said he saw his Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in her Apollo Hospital ward and she was having juice and idlis, only to retract that claim later and admitting he had not been allowed to see her. He even apologised for lying to the people.
Minister Srinivasan had also stated that the state's water crisis would be solved only by cyclone, "not even heavy rains", said Stalin, adding some more of the minister's howlers. "But then, he also speaks truth sometimes, such as when the Edappadi government was facing the confidence vote in the Assembly. "When the media asked him if the government would survive the confidence vote, he replied without hesitation that money could manage anything (Panam pathalam varikkum paayum)", Stalin recalled Srinivasan saying.
Turning his attention to Narendra Modi and the BJP, Stalin said the Prime Minister has failed miserably on the fulfillment of his poll promises. While the people got no promised cash remittances, the PM failed to keep even his promise to bring back the black money from abroad.
The farm sector has been throttled in multiple ways and through various levies and failed promises on procurement prices. "Farmers constitute 60 per cent of India's population, yet they are not helped, their loans are not waived; whereas the PM's corporate friends get crores of rupees waived from their bank loans. The Modi government belongs to the corporates, not to the ordinary people of this country", said the DMK chief, reiterating the Opposition charge that the Rafale deal was tinkered to benefit Reliance Defence, a "company that was started just 12 days before being awarded the contract" after jettisoning the government-owned HAL.
