Official language status for Tamil: O Panneerselvam

The manifesto also discussed perennial issues related to retrieval of Katchatheevu, justice for TamLankan Tamils, interlinking of south Indian rivers and rivulets in Tamil Nadu. 

AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam released the manifesto which detailed the “Amma Poverty Eradication Scheme” under which a grant of Rs 1,500 a month will be provided to BPL families. 

The AIADMK also vowed to interlink the rivers and bring back education-which is now in the Concurrent list to the State list-to ensure that the NEET is scrapped. The AIADMK also announced waiver of loans given to farmers and students. Panneerselvam also noted that the AIADMK would press for the release of the convicts in the Rajiv assassination case. 

On the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, the AIADMK manifesto read that it would press the Centre to take up the issue of genocide of Tamils during the Elam war. 

The party also said that it would urge the Union government to implement Tamil as one of the official languages of the country and also impress upon it to declare Cauvery delta region a protected agriculture zone. 

Deputy Chief Minister Panneerselvam also stressed that there is a need to accord full statehood to the neighbouring Union Territory of Puducherry.