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Ready to lead movement denying tax to central government, declares Stalin
DMK president M K Stalin on Wednesday said his party is ready to lead a movement against the Union Government by refusing to pay the tax owed to it for betraying Tamil Nadu over the Mekedatu issue.
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Writing in the party organ Murasoli, Stalin, who led a rally against the Centre in Tiruchy on Tuesday for permitting a detailed project report on the dam, reiterated that the permission granted by the government without the consent of the Supreme Court-appointed Cauvery Management Authority betrayed the interests of Tamil Nadu.
The DMK president said that if the deceit of the Centre continues, the DMK along with friendly parties and people were ready to organise a movement denying tax to the Centre, as did Gandhiji against the British.
Claiming that the Tiruchy rally has rattled the Centre, Stalin said the State Government has convened a special session of the Assembly only after the rally. The DMK and its allies have been insisting on the government convening the special session, but the ruling AIADMK, which has a complete disregard for democracy, has announced the special session only after witnessing a sea of cadre in Tiruchy, he added.
Referring to the cyclone relief fund sanctioned by the Centre, Stalin said the State had sought Rs 14,910 crore in total and an immediate relief sum of Rs 1,413 crore but was only allocated a few hundred crores. “The fund was also the usual allotment for national disaster relief and not an exclusive allotment for cyclone relief. The plight of Tamil Nadu would be like this until the egotistic BJP and negligent AIADMK government remain in power,” the LoP remarked, adding that the clarion call issued at Tiruchy would result in the formation of a secular government at the Centre and pro-people government in the State.
DMK chief meets MK’s admirer
DMK president M K Stalin met former police head constable Selvarani, who was transferred for composing a poem on former DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi after his death, at her house in Tiruchy late on Tuesday.
Selvarani, who has keen interest in Tamil language and literature, had written a poem on Karunanidhi after his demise earlier this year. She circulated a video clip of its recital on social media, following which she was transferred by the police department. Selvarani, however, sought voluntary retirement and left the police force recently.
The information of her retirement was passed onto Stalin who was here on Tuesday. The DMK chief visited her house in KK Nagar in Tiruchy after returning from Tiruvarur around 10.30 pm. Upon meeting her, Stalin told Selvarani that he would continue to be like her brother as she had referred Karunanidhi as ‘appa’ in the poem. A moved Selvarani then thanked Stalin for his gesture.
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