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    After lockdown, DMK demands Chief Minister to defer Assembly

    Urging Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami to issue appropriate orders to help people in the three curfew-imposed districts, DMK president MK Stalin on Sunday also called for deferring the Assembly session from Monday, March 23.

    After lockdown, DMK demands Chief Minister to defer Assembly
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    MK Stalin

    Chennai

    In a statement issued on Sunday, Stalin urged the Chief Minister to immediately hold consultation and issue appropriate orders to ensure that essential supplies to people of Chennai, Kancheepuram and Erode, where lockdown has been extended till March 31, was not affected.

    Stalin also asked Palaniswami to make efforts to provide food for daily wage earners and platform dwellers.

    The Leader of Opposition also urged the Chief Minister to defer the Assembly session from Monday. Session of the state Assembly has already been shortened by a week to the month end, against the proposed April 9 owing to the coronavirus threat.

    DMK MPs, MLAs to contribute a month’s salary

    Earlier, the DMK president also announced that his party MLAs and MPs would contribute a month’s salary to the CM Relief Fund to help unorganised workers affected by the virus outbreak. Asking the state government to come forward to allot more funds for the assistance of unorganised workers in the state, Stalin also made an appeal to the industrialists in the state to participate in the philanthropic effort.

    Reiterating that the state should allot more funds to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Stalin also asked the people of the state to be vigilant, maintain high hygiene standards and extend their support to the curfew call issued by the Centre an state like they did on Sunday, in the fight to arrest the spread of COVID-19.

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