DMK seeks session on farmers, grants

DMK working president MK Stalin, along with a few party MLAs on Wednesday, met the Speaker at the Assembly Secretariat in this connection. The DMK delegation also produced to the Speaker a copy of the letter Stalin had written to Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy, asking him to convene the Assembly session to debate the demand for grants for various departments and the farmers’ issue. 

Stating that it was not in the spirit of democracy to wait for the opposition party to urge (the government) to convene the Assembly to debate the demand for grants for various departments, Stalin said the ruling AIADMK has been setting a bad precedence in the recent years by not debating the demand for grants for various departments immediately after tabling the financial report in the Assembly. 

The Leader of Opposition also attempted to draw the attention of the Speaker and CM to the issue of the House not debating the demand for grants. 

Talking to media persons after the meeting, Stalin, who admitted to petitioning the Speaker on the issue, said, “We waited for the Chief Minister, but he did not meet us.” Hitting out at the ruling AIADMK for remaining engaged in solving the political crises of the party instead of solving people’s problems, Stalin said, “There are no discussions on people’s problems. Tamil Nadu government is in a state of coma.”

Stalin has made a pitch for convening the House at a time when the two factions of the AIADMK were busy working out the terms for their merger, especially the choice of CM and portfolios to be granted to members of the OPS faction in the reunited AIADMK cabinet.