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AIADMK government anti-farmer, charges MK Stalin
DMK working president MK Stalin, who met the people of Kathiramangalam on Monday, said that the DMK will always be with the people, who oppose anti-people projects. He stressed that the AIADMK-led government never cared to meet the people, who have been fighting to save their agricultural lands.
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While attacking the AIADMK for its claim that DMK had introduced the anti-people projects, he asked, “Why the AIADMK has not scrapped them and remained silence now?” As soon as Stalin reached the Ayyanar Temple premises in Kathiramangalam, where the people have been conducting protests and hunger strikes, the women met him and showed the bottles of contaminated water collected from their area and told him that the drinking water is unsafe in the village after the leakage in the pipelines of ONGC.
“We have raised the issue during the debate in the Assembly about the protests by the people in Kathiramangalam and Neduvasal and asked the Chief Minister to meet the people to understand their demands, but the Chief Minister had not responded to my questions. Instead, he went on blaming the DMK for the introduction of these projects,” Stalin said.
“As per the Chief Minister’s argument, even if these projects have been brought by the DMK, why the AIADMK-led government has been maintaining silence. Don’t they have guts to close the projects in the state for the welfare of the people,” Stalin asked. Pointing out that the Chief Minister was criticising the women, who have been protesting in Kathiramangalam, Stalin said that these maligning comments on protesting women should not have come from the CM. He also said that the people protested even during the DMK regime and the government had never criticised the protesters.
Stalin charged that the state government had never cared about the people’s protests in Neduvasal that had crossed over 110 days and Kathiramangalam protest that had continued for 74 days. “The government is not in a position to meet the people and hear their problems. At least the bureaucrats should have met the people and attempted to sort out their problems,” he opined.
Stalin also charged that the Prime Minister has time to meet all the factions of the AIADMK, but never cared or gives time to meet the farmers who protested in Delhi.
While hailing late chief minister J Jayalalaithaa as a strong lady, who could have opposed the projects brought by the Centre, he said that the present government, being run in her name, has been providing an all out support to the Central projects that affect the people of the state.
‘Health Minister in Delhi to escape gutkha case not for NEET relief’
“Health Minister, DGP and others, who are involved in the gutkha scam should be detained under the Goondas Act,” said DMK working president MK Stalin after visiting the arrested Kathiramangalam protesters, including Prof Jayaraman in the Tiruchy Central Prison on Monday.
“The Health Minister has rushed to Delhi to appeal to relieve him of the gutkha case and not for NEET exemption to the state,” claimed Stalin. He said that he had gone to the prison to meet the protesters and he had consoled Prof Jayaraman on his father’s death. “I went to express DMK’s support to the people of Kathiramangalam,” he added. When asked about the DGP’s statement on detaining of gutkha sellers under Goondas Act, Stalin said, “If it is so, then the Act should be used against Health Minister C Vijaya Baskar in the first instance and also against DGP Rajendran and the then Commissioner of Police George.
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