DMK MPs meet resolves to raise TN’s rights in ensuing Parliament session
Slamming the Union government again for repudiating the report of the Keezhadi findings, the DMK meeting also proposed to rake it up in Parliament.
Anna Arivalayam
CHENNAI: A meeting of DMK MPs, led by Chief Minister and party president MK Stalin, on Friday resolved to strongly voice the rights of Tamil Nadu during the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament.
A resolution adopted at the meeting held at DMK headquarters, Anna Arivalayam, said that during the upcoming monsoon session, MPs of the party will raise their voices strongly in support of Tamil Nadu’s financial rights, linguistic rights, educational rights, and the federal rights enshrined in the Indian Constitution.
“Under the leadership and guidance of the party president and Chief Minister, they will firmly and unitedly express the sentiments of the people of the State in both Houses of Parliament against the Union BJP government that has, for the past 11 years, betrayed Tamil Nadu and waged a cultural infiltration targeting the Tamil people,” the resolution read.
It said that the DMK MPs will firmly raise in Parliament the issues emphasised by Chief Minister Stalin in the May 24 NITI Aayog meeting, mainly the designing of a new scheme to desilt and restore the Cauvery, Vaigai, and Thamirabarani rivers, assigning English names instead of Hindi to the Union government’s schemes, unfair and discriminatory denial of SSA funds to Tamil Nadu for rejecting the three-language policy imposed on it, unlike BJP-ruled Maharashtra, which was granted SSA funds despite rolling back the three-language policy.
As per the resolution circulated by the DMK headquarters, the MPs of DMK will rge for devolution of 50% tax share for states from the Union’s tax revenue and the financial injustice of allocating only 33.16% as the states’ share in tax revenue, instead of the Constitutionally recommended 41% as per the 15th Finance Commission’s recommendation and the financial strain caused by the increasing share of State governments in jointly implemented Union-State schemes.
Slamming the Union government again for repudiating the report of the Keezhadi findings, the DMK meeting also proposed to rake it up in Parliament. It slammed the BJP-led government for remaining silent on the scientific evidence proving the antiquity of iron in Tamil civilisation and refusing to accept the Keezhadi excavation report highlighting the uniqueness of Tamil culture. The Dravidian party also criticised the BJP for continuously betraying Tamil Nadu by denying funds for railway projects and delaying the proper disbursal of MGNREGS funds.
