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All day the buzz was that AIADMK leader and chief minister Jayalalithaa would be releasing her manifesto during her campaign meeting at Perundurai in Erode. Her rally, however, started with an acerbic attack on the BJP before she returned to her favourtie whipping boy, the DMK-Congress combine, and finally ended with her manifesto.
In a direct attack on the BJPled government in Delhi, she accused the Centre of adopting a “wrong fuel pricing policy“. She said: “Congress-led UPA government, of which DMK was part, allowed oil companies to revise fuel prices every 15 days. The same faulty policy is followed by the BJP government also.“
BJP leaders have not been pulling their punches while attacking Jayalalithaa in their campaign and the AIADMK leader hit back. Though fuel prices have fallen, the BJP government has “hiked central excise duty, raking in undue profit,“ she said. The Centre has hiked excise duty to Rs 13.57 per litre of diesel and Rs 11.77 for a litre of petrol, she noted.
Jayalalithaa said though several other states have raised sales tax, she has not done the same in a bid to protect the public from inflation.“Nor have I hiked bus fare to compensate for the rise in diesel prices. Instead, the state government has given Rs1,556 crore subsidy to the transport corporations,“ she said.
Moving on to the DMK, she said Karunanidhi and his party were spreading canards about acute price rise. “Several factors like fuel price rise and hike in demand for products are behind price rise,“ she said.
The state government cannot frame policies to check price rise, which is the central government's domain, she said. “Rather I have initiated several measures to mitigate the impact of price rise,“ she said, accusing the previous Congress-led UPA government for inflation.
Describing the DMK and Congress as “allies in corruption“, she brought up the 2G spectrum scam and Aircel-Maxis deal. “The Himalayan scam causing loss of Rs1.76 lakh crore to the government exchequer was committed by a DMK minister,“ she said.
Questioning the DMK's charge of exodus of industrial units to other states, Jayalalithaa said it was during DMK's rule that the metro rail wagon making unit went to Sri City in Andhra Pradesh instead of Tamil Nadu.
She, instead, has revived textile units in Tirupur that were closed after court orders during DMK rule, she said. “I decided to grant interest-free loans to textile units to buy modern equipment to treat effluents. I ordered that Rs300 crore be granted as subsidy for 18 common effluent treatment plants,“ she said.