CHENNAI, JAN 5
In a scathing attack on ruling DMK, AIADMK top leader and former Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Wednesday accused the MK Stalin-led government of ignoring the law and order in Tamil Nadu and claimed the ruling party was targeting the AIADMK schemes and its executives.
Accusing the DMK government of political vendetta in scrapping the welfare schemes launched by the previous AIADMK government, the Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly alleged that the law and order situation in Tamil Nadu deteriorated after the DMK came to power. Crimes were on the rise and people, especially women, were feeling insecure under DMK rule. The banned gutka, clandestinely being brought from Andhra Pradesh and other States, is being sold in Tami Nadu, he told reporters after leading his party in staging a walkout from the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly during Governor R N Ravi’s maiden address to the House.
சட்ட ஒழுங்கு பிரச்சினை குறித்து பேச முயன்ற மாண்புமிகு எதிர்க்கட்சித் தலைவர் திரு. @EPSTamilNadu அவர்களின் மைக் இணைப்பு துண்டிக்கப்பட்டதால், ஆளுநர் உரையைப் புறக்கணித்து கழக சட்டமன்ற உறுப்பினர்கள் வெளிநடப்பு செய்தனர்.#TNAssembly #LawAndOrder pic.twitter.com/z4KtHdR3zR
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“Though the law requires that a person be produced in court within 24 hours of being picked up by police, our party executives are being whisked away by the police under the pretext of inquiry and nothing is known about their whereabouts for two or three days,” Palaniswami said.
The police were acting as puppets of the DMK government, he alleged.
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“We walked out of the House today condemning the DMK, especially Chief Minister M K Stalin, who holds the home portfolio, for the deteriorating law and order situation in Tamil Nadu,” Palaniswami explained.
The walkout was also to condemn the DMK government for winding up about 1,900 “Amma Mini Clinics” and Rs 2,000 Pongal gift schemes implemented by the previous AIADMK government, he said.
The move to close Amma Mini Clinics and deciding against providing Rs 2,000 in cash to the family ration cardholders only proved that the DMK government has become anti-people, the former Chief Minister said.
