AIADMK will not win a single seat in bypolls, declares Dhinakaran

Campaigning in Thanjavur for party’s bypoll candidate M Rengasamy and Lok Sabha candidate P Murugesan, Dhinakaran said that if AIADMK failed to get at least six out of the 22 seats, the State government would face major trouble.

Coming down heavily on the AIADMK-led alliance, the AMMK leader said the Narendra Modi-led union government has always betrayed the interests of Tamil Nadu. Labelling those siding with the AIADMK as ‘traitors’, Dhinakaran said they have aligned with those who had opposed the memorial for former CM J Jayalalithaa.

He said that TMC founder G K Moopanar was always against the communal forces and its members voted against the BJP when Jayalalithaa had proposed a no-confidence motion against the then Atal Bihar Vajapayee-led government. Moopanar even supported Jayalalalithaa in the 2001 elections, Dhinakaran said, adding that his son G K Vasan has deviated from his father’s path of secularism.

Criticising the DMK-led alliance, which claims to be a secular coalition, he said that the party chief M K Stalin was forced to declare that his party was not against the Hindus.

Alleging that the DMK has secret ties with the BJP, he said that was the reason why the election in Vellore Lok Sabha seat was not cancelled though crores of rupees was seized from properties linked to the party treasurer Duraimurugan. Picking up a region-specific issue, Dhinakaran lashed the DMK saying that the Coal Bed Methane (CBM) project was given permission only when the opposition party was in power in the State.

Assuring that his party would work for declaring the delta districts as protected agricultural zones, the AMMK leader said that jobs would be created in a sustainable way and agriculture-based.

He said that when a government functioning in line with Jayalalithaa’s vision was formed in the state again, the livelihood of farmers, farm workers, fishermen and unorganised workers would be taken care of. The demand for the pension scheme of the government employees and government teachers would also be fulfilled as it was mentioned in the manifesto issued by then CM Jayalalithaa, he added.

Pointing out that it was the first time that independents (his party candidates) were allotted the same symbol in all the 39 Lok Sabha seats, he expressed the hope that all of them would emerge victorious.