DMK-Congress pact like fermented rice, O Panneerselvam

PUDUCHERRY: Equating the alliance between DMK and Congress to pazhaya soru (fermented rice), as the state and national parties had retained their ties for the ensuing Lok Sabha polls, Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister and AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam lambasted the two parties for failing to execute any people-welfare schemes in the previous Congress-led UPA regimes in which DMK was a constituent.


The AIADMK leader was speaking at a campaign at Sankarapuram on Wednesday seeking votes for the DMDK candidate L K Sudeesh contesting from Kallakuruchi parliamentary constituency under the alliance headed by the AIADMK. Panneerselvam ridiculed DMK president M K Stalin for attempting to project himself as a simple politician by enacting dramas like reaching the voters on foot, cycling to villages or sipping tea at roadside shops.

“I won’t create such a mirage as I ran a tea shop and I know who visits shops to have a tea and who enacts a drama of visiting tea shops for political gains. No farmer ploughs the land wearing trousers whereas Stalin ploughs farmland wearing colourful trousers to pose for photographs,” the deputy chief minister said mocking at the DMK leader.

He held the DMK and Congress parties responsible for the large-scale massacre of Sri Lankan Tamil people by the Sri Lankan army in the ethnic war.

Terming DMK and its party cadres as violent forces targeting the poorer and the weaker sections of the society, he appealed to the voters to elect the candidates fielded under the AIADMK alliance to ensure the continuance of Dharma’s regime in the state and re-election of a strong Prime Minister like Narendra Modi for building a strong country.

He showered encomiums on the late chief minister J Jayalalithaa for the initiatives she undertook to obtain the fair share of Cauvery water for Tamil Nadu by taking all necessary legal measures.

He said the Tamil Nadu government will take all proactive measures to meet the irrigation needs of the farmers in this part of the state. He said Sudeesh if elected to Parliament will ensure implementation of all centrally-sponsored schemes and projects in Kallakuruchi constituency.