Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS), AIADMK general secretary, lashed out at the DMK for spreading rumours of AIADMK-BJP links. He was in Dharmapuri to attend a marriage function for 100 couples on Sunday and spoke to the media on this occasion.
EPS stated that DMK leader M K Stalin and his party were still spreading stories about an indirect link-up between the AIADMK and the saffron party though the AIADMK had broken off the alliance. He said, “The BJP and AIADMK no longer have an alliance. But Chief Minister MK Stalin could not accept AIADMK’s break up with the BJP. Thus, the DMK has been making false and motivated campaigns against the AIADMK.”
The former Tamil Nadu CM also stated that the people of Tamil Nadu will teach a lesson to the ruling DMK in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. EPS elaborated, “The DMK got votes of minorities by cheating them, and we have put a full stop to it. In the past two-and-a-half years of the DMK government, nothing had been done for this district. When the AIADMK was in power, to increase the groundwater level and provide water to farmers, it announced a scheme at a cost of Rs 500 crore to bring surplus water from the South Pennar River. But in the DMK government, the schemes are progressing at a very slow pace.”
He added that the AIADMK government had given Rs 2500 per family for Pongal along with the gifts but the DMK had looted the people by swindling money and giving poor quality products for Pongal.
EPS said, “The people will end the family rule of DMK as the party is planning to make Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin as the next Chief Minister. This will never happen as AIADMK will win the next Assembly elections.”
