NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin expressed his optimism over the DMK-led alliance’s victory within the state meeting elections. He claimed that they might be capable to safe over 200 seats within the polls, whereas he additionally launched assault on the BJP of making an attempt to make use of the ladies’s quota as a “weapon” towards the opposition. He additionally skilled weapons on the AIADMK chief Edappadi Okay Palaniswami, the enforcement directorate and the Centre.Stalin stated the Secular Progressive Alliance, which incorporates Congress, Left events and the VCK, would sweep the 234-member Meeting and type the Dravidian Mannequin 2.0 authorities. He claimed public help for the DMK had been strengthened by 5 years of governance and welfare measures. “Individuals have positioned immense love and belief in my celebration, and with their help, the SPA will win greater than 200 seats and type the Dravidian Mannequin 2.0 authorities,” he stated.
Ladies’s quota row
The chief minister stated the Union authorities was not severe about implementing reservations for ladies and accused the BJP-led Heart of making an attempt to make use of it to counter the opposition forward of the delimitation train. “The Union authorities isn’t involved about implementing reservations for ladies. If their issues have been real, they might have achieved it instantly. Fairly than doing that, the BJP-led Heart is pondering of utilizing it as a weapon to sort out opposition and take up the delimitation train based mostly on inhabitants,” he stated.He added that girls’s reservation have to be applied instantly and with out linking it to delimitation. Stalin additionally stated Tamil Nadu had raised the primary voice on the difficulty of delimitation after realizing the state might be affected, and argued that states with profitable population-control measures shouldn’t be punished.
Assault on EPS
Stalin dismissed Palaniswami’s cost that his household was a “energy centre”, calling it imaginary and meant to divert consideration from the DMK authorities’s document. He additionally hit again on the AIADMK chief over criticism on ladies’s security and legislation and order, saying the Pollachi sexual assault case remained a reminder of the earlier regime’s failures.He alleged that the AIADMK lacked ideology or precept and stated the Delhi BJP functioned as its headquarters. On delimitation, he accused Palaniswami of being “mute” and stated the AIADMK chief was successfully backing the BJP’s place.
ED and welfare claims
Stalin described ED actions within the TASMAC and sand-mining circumstances as “Centre produced, ED-enacted dramas” and accused the company of being turned “servile.” He stated the alleged TASMAC rip-off and unlawful sandmining circumstances have been politically scripted.He additionally defended his authorities’s welfare schemes, saying the ladies’s month-to-month entitlement of Rs 1,000 and the breakfast scheme for schoolchildren have been among the many initiatives closest to his coronary heart. He stated the ladies’s rights scheme could be raised to Rs 2,000 within the subsequent time period, whereas the breakfast program could be expanded as much as Class 8.This comes amid the run-up to the April 23 Tamil Nadu Meeting elections, with counting scheduled for Could 4. Stalin stated the DMK-led alliance had remained sturdy since 2019 and would additionally carry out nicely in Puducherry, the place polling was held on April 9.