VIRUDHUNAGAR: State Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu on Friday attacked the opposition AIADMK and said it can only make poll promises, but it is the DMK that implements the projects announced in its election manifesto.
Hitting out at AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, the minister for Finance and Environment, Climate change, said even those who were not part of the DMK were criticising the AIADMK for having announced as poll assurances what the ruling government has already implemented in the state.
“There have been widespread comments that the AIADMK has photocopied whatever schemes the DMK has been executing already in the state. I even heard from those who do not belong to the DMK that the opposition party has announced new schemes (in its election manifesto) that the DMK has already implemented. They (AIADMK) can only make poll promises. But it is the DMK that will be fulfilling them,” he told reporters here. The Leader of the Opposition Palaniswami had announced two sets of poll promises in January and February. It includes a hike in monthly social security pensions to Rs 2,000 and waiver of education loans for students, among others.
“Under the social security pension scheme, the monthly assistance provided to senior citizens, widows, destitutes, differently-abled persons and trans persons will be raised from Rs 1,200 to Rs 2,000 when AIADMK forms government in the state,” the AIADMK general secretary had said.