Thambidurai rejects Gurumurthy’s prediction on Rajini

“There is no political vacuum in Tamil Nadu. Whatever Gurumurthy says will not happen. Dravidian parties will continue to rule Tamil Nadu,” Thambidurai told the media at the airport here. He said even former editor of Thuglaq Cho Ramaswamy had admitted that his predictions had failed in Tamil Nadu politics.

After the death of DMK founder CN Annadurai, it was said that there would be a political vacuum, but DMK president M Karunanidhi filled it with the help of MGR, who later replaced Karunanidhi, Thambidurai said. After MGR’s demise, J Jayalalithaa ruled the state and Dravidian parties would continue the trend, he asserted.

Commenting on the abandoning of the hydrocarbon project at Neduvasal in Pudukkottai district by the Gem Laboratories, he said the AIADMK would not allow any project against the interests of people and farmers. The AIADMK government had kept people’s interests above everything, he added. He also said the AIADMK would oppose the declaration of Delta districts as a petro-chemical region.

On the NEET examination, Thambidurai said his party is opposed to it and sought the scrapping of the examination altogether.

The party would fight for the state’s rights, he said and appealed to the union government to respect cooperative federalism and protect the language, culture and rights of states.

When asked about the delay in getting the assent of the President for the NEET exemption bill, Thambidurai said the party had raised the issue in Parliament and people should make a decision.

He also expected a favourable result in the Cauvery dispute during the hearing in the Supreme Court on May 14. “We trust only the Supreme Court and we do not trust the national parties on the Cauvery issue,” he said.