NE NEWS SERVICE
TIRUCHIRAPPALLI, DEC 30
AIADMK Coordinator and Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday hit back at DMK president M K Stalin for claiming that the ruling party was headed for a split and said the dream of breaking up the ruling party would become a mirage.
He slammed the arch-rival for ”dynasty” politics and urged people to reject it. Referring to Stalin’s claim, Palaniswami said not even a single AIADMK worker could be ”touched,” dismissing scope for divisions or split in the party.
திருச்சியில் தேர்தல் பிரச்சாரத்தின் போது, தொட்டியத்தில் வாழைத்தோட்டங்களைப் பார்வையிட்டு,வாழைத்தோட்டத் தொழிலாளர்களின் குறைகளைக் கேட்டறிந்த மாண்புமிகு தமிழகமுதல்வர் @CMOTamilNadu அவர்கள் மண்வெட்டியால் நிலத்தை சாகுபடிக்கு ஏற்றவாறு பண்படுத்தினார்.#வெற்றிநடை_போடும்_தமிழகம் pic.twitter.com/jk9bH5UzLH
— AIADMK IT WING – Say No To Drugs & DMK (@AIADMKITWINGOFL) December 30, 2020
“Stalin says the AIADMK will split. Our party will not go apart. You cannot touch even a single worker. AIADMK is a lively, robust party. You are attempting to create confusion in the AIADMK. That will never happen. Try to save your party first,” he said in his poll campaign in Tiruchirappalli district.
“Don’t dream of breaking the AIADMK. Such a dream will turn out to be a mirage,” he added. Assembly elections are likely during April-May 2021 in Tamil Nadu. From an ordinary branch secretary of the AIADMK in a village, he grew through sheer hard work and rose through the ranks to become the Chief Minister, Palaniswami said.
Stalin, however, did not grow in DMK through work, he alleged. His father Karunanidhi was the Chief Minister and DMK president and this factor enabled his growth without actually working for it, Palaniswami said.
Stalin had on Tuesday claimed there was confusion in the AIADMK over the Chief Ministerial candidate and it would lead to a split. Palaniswami said while AIADMK’s late Chief Ministers, M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa considered the people as their heirs and ran the government for their welfare, “there is another party that is being run for their children.”
Accusing Stalin of “changing colours more speedier than a chameleon,” the Chief Minister said the leader of the opposition in the assembly remembered people only during elections.
“Should only Karunanidhi, Stalin and his son Udhayanidhi rule Tamil Nadu?…could no other person from outside of their family lead Tamil Nadu (as Chief Minister)? he asked.
The upcoming, 2021 Assembly election should be utilised by the people to keep a “full stop to dynasty politics and there must be no room for it hereafter,” Palaniswami said.
திமுக கட்சிக்காரர்கள் கடையில் பொருளை வாங்கிவிட்டு காசு கேட்டால் அடிப்பார்கள் ; பரோட்டா கடையில் மூக்கு பிடிக்க தின்று விட்டு காசு கேட்டால் மூக்கை உடைப்பார்கள்!
– மாண்புமிகு தமிழகமுதல்வர் அவர்கள் விமர்சனம்! 👇🏻👇🏻#வெற்றிநடை_போடும்_தமிழகம் #AIADMK pic.twitter.com/NBOxJgNcdb
— AIADMK IT WING – Say No To Drugs & DMK (@AIADMKITWINGOFL) December 30, 2020
In AIADMK, any party worker could become the Chief Minister and this is possible only with his party, he said and urged the people to deliver justice. Also, he slammed the DMK as an ”unruly party” and recalled allegations against party men involved in some alleged incidents of violence over the years.
If this was the situation when the DMK was not in power, what kind of a scenario could unfold if it managed to capture power, he asked the people and wanted them to reject the party and vote for AIADMK’s two-leaves symbol to ensure continuance of good governance.
Palaniswami accused the DMK of not ”fulfilling” its promises in the past when it won the assembly polls. “In 2006, DMK said they will give two acres of land for landless farmers. They did not provide the land,” he said. Recalling allegations of land grabbing during the 2006- 11 DMK regime, he urged the people to teach a lesson to the opposition party.
The Chief Minister listed a slew of welfare measures of his government and quick measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic and natural calamities like the recent back to back cyclones.
