NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, APRIL 15
DMK president M K Stalin has accused Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami of projecting himself and his party AIADMK and “politicising” the functioning of State government in the fight against COVID-19 here on Wednesday.
அனைத்துக் கட்சி கூட்டம் பாதுகாப்பு விதிகளுடன் நடைபெறும் என திமுக உறுதியளித்தும், தலைமைச் செயலகத்தில் பல்வேறு கூட்டங்கள் நடத்திய அதிமுக அரசு காவல்துறை மூலமாக அனுமதி மறுத்துள்ளது.
நாளை நடைபெறவிருந்த அதே கூட்டம் ஏப்ரல் 16 அன்று காலை 11 மணிக்கு காணொலிக் காட்சி மூலம் நடக்கும். pic.twitter.com/F58S21QhUV
— M.K.Stalin (@mkstalin) April 14, 2020
Citing a proposed meeting of his party and allies, originally slated to be held on Wednesday to deliberate the COVID-19 situation, he said it was cancelled due to denial of police permission and this was Palaniswami”s “blatant, uncivilised politics.”
Declining to give the nod will not be accepted as anti- coronavirus activity by anyone, but it is seen as a political action by AIADMK and through this the Chief Minister has shown his “arrogance,” Stalin alleged in a statement.
Earlier on Tuesday, DMK chief Stalin had said “the AIADMK government has made the police department issue a notice, directing that the meeting should not be held” in view of the lockdown.
Following the denial, the DMK also announced that the proposed meeting will be held on April 16 through video conferencing. Stalin alleged, “by projecting him and his party AIADMK even in the fight against coronavirus, Palaniswami is politicising the neutral government apparatus meant for the the people.”
The DMK chief, who is also the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, alleged that the government action was intended to thwart the public service of his party during the lockdown. “Preventing” his party-led meeting with its allies, “banning” distribution of relief by his party and government’s “unilateral” pooling of Rs one crore each from the MLA Constituency Development Scheme had an “ulterior motive,” he alleged adding it was aimed at “preventing DMK”s public work during lockdown and it is “condemnable.”
The State government had on Monday clarified that it had not banned distribution of food/essential commodities to the needy, but only insisted on precautions like social distancing and the need for volunteers to work with government to ensure preventing the contagion’s spread.
