NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, JAN 22
The executive council meeting of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) urging the state government to pressurise the union government to grant Indian citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamils here on Tuesday.
The party also urged the ruling AIADMK to announce that it would not allow the implementing of the National Population Register (NPR) and National Register for Citizens (NRC) in the state.
Besides passing this in a resolution, a DMK emergency executive council meeting also condemned the state government on various issues and demanded immediate polls for urban local bodies.
The meeting urged the state government to hold the elections for nine urban local bodies soon after completing the necessary procedures like delimitation.
It also thanked voters for electing the party’s nominees in the recently concluded rural local body elections.
The DMK also demanded that the ruling AIADMK government announce that it will not allow work relating to NPR and NRC in the interest of national unity.
The principal opposition party in the state, the DMK also resolved to unmask the AIADMK and reveal its true anti-people face, listing out several contentious issues like the common entrance exam for medical college admissions, delay in commissioning of the next phase of the Keezhadi excavation, and not opposing the central government order on removing the mandatory condition to seek public opinion for hydro-carbon exploration projects, among others.
The meeting, chaired by DMK President M.K. Stalin, was attended by party leaders and Members of the both Legislative Assembly and Parliament.
