Teach DMK, AIADMK fitting lesson: DMDK

New promise: DMDK leader Vijaykant addressing an election campaign at Sri Ramapuram near Dindigul on Tuesday.


DINDIGUL: “Give Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam an opportunity to root out corruption and eradicate poverty. Already you (voters ) are tired of electing DMK five times and AIAMDK twice which did nothing for your welfare and development of the state. Both parties have become prosperous with your votes. But you remain paupers even today,” said Vijaykant, DMDK leader.

He was kicking off his election campaign for DMDK candidate P. Muthuvel Raj at Reddiyarchatram, near here on Monday.

“Both have deceived you. It is the right time to teach them a fitting lesson,” he said and questioned, “Do you want to cast your vote once again to one of them that did not respect people?” The crowd cheerfully shouted, “no.”

“You think and decide, show your power to them,” he said.

Higher education was still not accessible to the poor. Education loan was a distant dream to common man but accessible only to those who got recommendation from political leaders.

Home Minister P. Chidambaram announced that students would get interest free loan and the announcement remained only on paper, he charged.

Having listed out the failures of State and Central governments, he also said that DMK has been silently watching people being killed in Sri Lanka.

Even today, Tamil Nadu has been depending on three neighbouring States for water.

Both parties failed miserably in settling Cauvery and Mullai Periyar issues, he added.

Crowd was impressive at Sri Ramapuram and poor at Reddiyarchatram and Chinnalapatti.

He cancelled his campaign tour half way owing to vehicle repair and decided to campaign at Chinnalapatti, Nilakottai and Natham in the evening.

Despite ban on plastics, festoons made of plastics decorated several roads at Chinnalapatti.

Concluding his campaign for Karur constituency candidate R. Ramanathan at Vedasandur on Monday night, Mr. Vijaykant said over 40,000 mill workers had lost their jobs owing to acute power crisis that paralysed spinning mills in Vedasandur.

All sections of people including farmers have been struggling. The State government could not repair shutters of Kudaganar dam for the past one year.

Source: www.hindu.com