Chennai/Tiruchy: DMK working president M.K. Stalin on Wednesday appealed to the people to support the agitations of his party if they wanted to remove the ‘benami regime’ run by a mafia gang.
He also said his party is not interested in back door entry to power and asserted that he wanted to come to power through the ballot, in a clear indication that the DMK wants dissolution of the Assembly and fresh elections. The Leader of Opposition promised to order an enquiry into the death of former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa if the DMK is voted to power. Stalin was addressing the people after the conclusion of a one-day hunger protest in Tiruchy, as part of the state-wide protests to condemn ‘murder of democracy in the Assembly’ by Speaker P. Dhanapal.
Stalin said if the DMK wanted a back door entry, it could have done soon after the demise of former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. He also criticised former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam for not raising the issue of mystery in Jayalalithaa's death when he was in power. He also asked why Palanisami had not ordered an enquiry into the death of Jayalalithaa when he signed files for welfare schemes.
Tiruchy south district secretary K.N. Nehru, DMK Rajya sabha Member Tiruchy Siva, party’s legislatures Soundirapandiyan, Mahesh Poyyamozhi, IUML state president Khadar Mohideen and other leaders participated in the protest.
The party took the issue ‘murder of democracy in the Assembly’ by Speaker P. Dhanapal to the people by sitting on hunger protests in all the districts throughout the state. Stalin led the protest Tiruchy, in the central region, while other leaders spread out to various districts to convey to the people incidents that occurred in the Assembly.
The party leaders said the Speaker carried out the voting in the confidence motion moved by Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palanisami after evicting them, paving way for the victory of the motion. They also alleged that opposition
members including Stalin were attacked by policemen who were called into the Assembly by the Speaker.
